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From: reg@lti2.UUCP (Rick Genter x18)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: C's sins of commission (was: (pssst...fortran?))
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Date: 1 Oct 90 11:12:37 GMT
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> OK, how do you implement the function "rnd", which returns a random
> number, without letting it have side effects?

This is trivial.  Pass in the initial seed; rnd() must return the new
seed as well as the random number (some algorithms may allow the new seed
to be the random number).

Let us get the discussion back to *futures*.
					- reg
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Rick Genter					reg%lti.uucp@bu.edu
Language Technology, Inc.