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From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: random number generator for pc fortran
Keywords: random number generator
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Date: 14 Jan 89 15:46:21 GMT
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See:
	CACM Vol. 31 Num. 10
	"Random Number Generators: Good Ones Are Hard to Find"
	S.K.Park and K.W.Miller
	pp. 1192-1201

A very good article - explains problems involved, some solutions
and GIVES EXAMPLES.  It was easy for me to write a *good* random
number generator in C, Pascal and FORTRAN.  They all use the same
algorithm, and they all are verified correct implementations.