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- From: jollie@zambini.cs.uiowa.edu (Jeffrey C. Ollie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp48
- Subject: HP's RAND algorithm
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.183731.130@news.uiowa.edu>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 18:37:31 GMT
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- Organization: University of Iowa
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- I just got my 48SX, and I love it! But, I was wondering what algorithm
- HP used for the random number generator. I'm hoping that it is a
- prime modulus multiplicative linear conguential generator (I'm not
- making this up) with a=16807 and m=2^31 - 1. I've written one of my own,
- but would prefer to use the built in RAND.
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- Jeff Ollie
- jollie@zambini.cs.uiowa.edu "The Happy User"
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