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Re: Random Numbers fasters than the osax

Subject: Re: Random Numbers fasters than the osax
From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 11:31:55 +0100

At 8:07 PM +0100 27/3/02, Michael Sullivan wrote:

>That's not a huge deal, but I'm wondering if one of you math wiz folks
>has a vanilla random number generator handy, or a suggestion on how to
>build one.

My suggestion about how to build a Quick & Dirty one would be:

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set theNextRandomNumber to (thePreviousOne + BigBigPrime) mod (BigPrime)
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where BigPrime is any big prime number, and BigBigPrime a still bigger one.

Emmanuel
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