Wanted: random number generator written in C
David Levine
davidl at tekecs.UUCP
Wed Sep 28 02:23:24 AEST 1983
I am looking for a good public-domain pseudo-random number generator
written entirely in C. Here's the catch: it has to run on Un*x
(Berkeley V7, version 4.1c) and be portable to a CP/M 2.2 system
(Software Toolworks' C compiler version 2.0, with considerable i/o
extensions to emulate stdio) with NO REALTIME CLOCK! I figure the best
way to get pseudo-random numbers is to start with a 'seed' built into
the program, then store the last number generated on disk as a new
seed. Obviously, deleting the file with this seed in it would cause
the program to start over with the original seed, but you can't have
everything. Public-domain source, pointers to non-public-domain stuff
I can study, or just advice would be appreciated.
-- David D. Levine (...decvax!tektronix!tekecs!davidl) [UUCP]
(...tekecs!davidl.tektronix at rand-relay) [ARPA]
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