Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!emory!wuarchive!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!agate!bionet!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!acad3.fai.alaska.edu!ftpam1 From: ftpam1@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (MUNTS PHILLIP A) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: Re: Random Number algorithm Keywords: random numbers Message-ID: <1990Oct29.232459.28652@hayes.ims.alaska.edu> Date: 29 Oct 90 23:24:59 GMT References: <85376@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Sender: usenet@hayes.ims.alaska.edu (J Random USENET) Reply-To: ftpam1@acad3.fai.alaska.edu Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks Lines: 19 News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4 Nntp-Posting-Host: acad3.fai.alaska.edu In article <85376@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, yu-d@anaconda.cis.ohio-state.edu (Moonrise Programmer) writes... > > Does anybody have a random number generator I can use? Or a reference I can look up? I've been messing around with the FST Modula-2 v2.0 compiler but the libraries don't have a random number generator. I made one up but I don't really like it. > See the article in the October 1988 "Communications of the ACM". > My, my this newsgroup is getting spicier. Imagine Satanism and Modula-w hand in hand, I never would have thought. :-) > More appropriate for C. > David >-- > David "as in" Yu -=- DrepuS -=- The One Who Programs by Moonlight! > The Ohio State University - Land of the Buckeyes! >If ya know what ya know then you know what you need. If you know what you >need then go get it. yu-d@cis.ohio-state.edu : Secretary of the OSU-ACM Philip Munts N7AHL NRA Extremist, etc. University of Alaska, Fairbanks