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From: cca04@keele.ac.uk (P.J. Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer,comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Random numbers
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Date: 3 Aug 90 12:52:08 GMT
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From article <139529@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, by mrm@loglady.Eng.Sun.COM (Marianne Mueller):
> See also Park & Miller, "Random Number Generators: Good Ones Are Hard
> to Find", CACM, Vol 31, No 10, Oct 1988, 1192-1201. 

Well people, thanks for nothing ! All I've had is references like the above
or really useful comments like use the BSD random() function.

Was my posting not clear enough for you ? I said that I am using Meiko C and
fortran and Meiko supply rand()/srand(). Not one person actually answered my
question about how to use *these* functions ! I was just told not to.

I even started toying with bit shifts...

BTW while looking for the source for folded (has anyone got a copy that they's
like to mail me ?) in the comp.source.misc archives (a real laugh from UK
academinc sites) I found, totally by accident, the source for the random()
function and had hacked that so I can use it. All you jocks telling me to
use it and no one bothers to tell me it's PD and I where to pick it up.

Sheesh.
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