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- BBS: Canada Remote Systems
- Date: 06-18-93 (23:27) Number: 26893
- From: KENT BRIGGS Refer#: NONE
- To: BRIAN PAPE Recvd: NO
- Subj: RANDOM NUMBERS Conf: (1221) F-PASCAL
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- -=> Quoting Brian Pape to Erik Johnson <=-
-
- BP> Please- I *am* looking for the source code to a decent random number
- BP> generator so that I'm not dependant on Borland.
-
- Brian, Borland did change their random:word function when they released
- 7.0. However the random:real function, the randomize procedure, and their
- method of updating randseed remain the same as ver 6.0. Using DJ Murdoch's
- CycleRandseed procedure and reverse engineering TP6's and TP7's Random
- functions, I came up with the following routines:
-
- const rseed: longint = 0;
-
- procedure randomize67; {TP 6.0 & 7.0 seed generator}
- begin
- reg.ah:=$2c;
- msdos(reg); {get time: ch=hour,cl=min,dh=sec,dl=sec/100}
- rseed:=reg.dx;
- rseed:=(rseed shl 16) or reg.cx;
- end;
-
- function rand_word6(x: word): word; {TP 6.0 RNG: word}
- begin
- rseed:=rseed*134775813+1;
- rand_word6:=(rseed shr 16) mod x;
- end;
-
- function rand_word7(x: word): word; {TP 7.0 RNG: word}
- begin
- rseed:=rseed*134775813+1;
- rand_word7:=((rseed shr 16)*x+((rseed and $ffff)*x shr 16)) shr 16;
- end;
-
- function rand_real67: real; {TP 6.0 & 7.0 RNG: real}
- begin
- rseed:=rseed*134775813+1;
- if rseed<0 then rand_real67:=rseed/4294967296.0+1.0 else
- rand_real67:=rseed/4294967296.0;
- end;
-
- If anyone can improve on these please post some code here, thanks.
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