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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: random number generator
Message-ID: <4681@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 31 Jan 91 08:45:51 GMT
References: <27A20DBF.15393@ics.uci.edu>
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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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)?

LOOK IN THE LIBRARY!  It's even mentioned in the manual.
	?- use_module(library(random))).
	?- random(X).	% uniform [0,1) random float
There are lots of other routines in that file.
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