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From: simons@prl.philips.co.uk (Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Problem with Occam RAN function
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Date: 14 Mar 90 14:17:22 GMT
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I've been trying to use the RAN function with very little success. Sounds
simple enough - but it just doesn't seem to work.
This is my test program :

INT32 x :
REAL32 y :
INT k :
TIMER clock :
SEQ
  clock ? k
  x := INT32 k
   SEQ i = 0 FOR 10
     y,x := RAN(x) 

>From this routine I would expect 10 random real numbers - I get rubbish,
can someone enlighten me ?