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Subject: Re: Random # gen
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From: a880104@zipi.fi.upm.es ((Jare/Iguana))
Date: 22 Sep 94 18:40:51 +0200
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In article <350u46$bio@news.u.washington.edu>, plexus@u.washington.edu (Delmar Larsen) writes:

>	Would anyone here be interested in sharing their random
>number generator.

Ours can be found in most of our source releases... the last one is incosrc.zip

>Random	Macro
>	mov	ax,seed
>	add	ax,9248h	;; 1001001001001000b (visual rep)
>	ror	ax,1
>	ror	ax,1
>	ror	ax,1
>	mov	seed,ax
>ENDM
>
>Here's the spread:

>This was generated using a little c program with inline asm. The 
>number of iterations was 1000. 

I think that other info would be needed in order to qualify the algorithm...
some random number generators can show little patterns (or BIG ones, but :))
in the data generated. Try generating starfields with them, for example, as
I don't remember the academical tests right now.


Seeyanara
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