Re: Re: Re: RANDOM function?

On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Einar Karttunen wrote:

> That sounds very hard to implement effeciently. Could you send me some
> high level pseudocode? I think that a with 31 bit random integers the
> probablity to get the same value is very very small. If it is too big
> I can always change to bigints.

I got 516 hits at Google.com on
  random number generator "without replacement"
some hits in C, some in C++, .... One employs the
Gnu Scientific Library, 

Gord

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