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From: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul)
Subject: Re: rand48 family
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In article <1993Apr28.085207.20635@email.tuwien.ac.at> mbirgmei@email.tuwien.ac.at (Martin BIRGMEIER) writes:
>I needed this (even though srandom() might be better); gleaned it from
>a SunOS manual page; derived the constants to use (those not described
>in that man page) by writing a few test programs.  It now seems to
>output the same as the SunOS version. I tried to write it with

Pity you didn't try archie because there's already an implementation of
the rand48 family on the net which I pulled off about 6 months ago.

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  Paul Richards, University of Wales, College Cardiff

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