Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ut-sally!utastro!bill
From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Misuse of random number generators
Message-ID: <2344@utastro.UUCP>
Date: 31 Dec 87 21:56:42 GMT
References: <2337@utastro.UUCP> <6418@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <2343@utastro.UUCP>
Reply-To: bill@astro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
Organization: UT AUSTIN Astronomy Department/McDonald Observatory
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Keywords: random numbers, multiplicative congruential generators

In article <6418@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> jmm@thoth8.berkeley.edu.BERKELEY.EDU () writes:
~If this is true, what's the best way to get random numbers in the range
~1..6?  (I'm using LSPascal.)
~
I forgot to mention, you need to be sure that the calculation is done in
real arithmetic so you don't have integer divides. Also, if you need
integer results (i.e., you are simulating a die, which would be likely
given the above question) just make sure you have the right interval
and truncate the result. Be careful about the end points, though.

Bill Jefferys
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