Date:	Thu, 9 Feb 1995 01:21:44 +0900
From:	Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	rand48

I took a look in the archives, and discovered a couple of discussions
of rand48, but only the suggestion that it be used; no references that
I could find.  archie (archie.sura.net and whatever the default host
for .jp is) couldn't find rand48, srand48, or lrand48.

man lrand48 got me some Japanese information on our Sun.  There were
no algorithm citations, nor copyright or whatever.  The algorithm
itself seemed to be pretty carefully described, but I'm not fluent
enough (Japanese text looks a lot like a 2D random bitmap to me at
this time of night) to try to parse it.

Maybe somebody could try man on their Sun.  Oh, BTW it's not
implemented for Linux GCC.  (At least it didn't show up in the man
pages.  Hang a sec....)  Oops; it *is* in libc.a and a test program
shows random behavior (ie, looks like the answers of a typical student
on the last multiple choice test I gave).

I don't have the source, but you can surely get it on sunsite.unc.edu
or other Fine Linux Mirror near you.  Good luck!

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