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From: dave@quintus.UUCP (David Bowen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: random number generator
Message-ID: <1477@quintus.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jan 91 03:21:03 GMT
References: <27A20DBF.15393@ics.uci.edu>
Reply-To: dave@quintus.UUCP (David Bowen)
Organization: Quintus Corporation
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In article <27A20DBF.15393@ics.uci.edu> cain@ics.uci.edu (Timothy Cain) writes:
>Does anyone have a random number generator written in Prolog, or know
>how I can get a random number using Quintus Prolog 2.4 (UNIX)? I'd
>rather not have to write a C routine just to produce a few different
>numbers for every run of my Prolog code.

Use library(random).  It defines a number of different routines for random
number generation.