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From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: random distribution
Keywords: random, random number distribution
Message-ID: <1991May13.093047.25136@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
Date: 13 May 91 09:30:47 GMT
References: <1991May7.181058.21301@cs.yale.edu>
Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
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In article <1991May7.181058.21301@cs.yale.edu>, kuszewsk@euler.biology.yale.edu (John Kuszewski) writes:
> does anyone know the type of distribution produced by random?

It is supposed to be uniform.  I don't know what it actually is; it
probably depends on your system.

					der Mouse

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