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From: brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu
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Subject: Re: rand()
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Date: 10 Jan 90 22:06:45 GMT
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Reply-To: brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
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In article <5814@orca.wv.tek.com> andrew@frip.wv.tek.com writes:
> It's generally unsafe to generate a linear
> congruential sequence, then take the elements modulo various small
> numbers.
>
> This is discussed in the standard reference:  Knuth volume II.

Knuth does not make that statement, and it simply isn't true for the
application in question.

---Dan