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00100	         RANDOM  -  SAIL ACCESSIBLE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR
00200	
00300	                          Bruce g. Baumgart
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00500	
00600	The require source file statement for declaring the RANDOM routine is:
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00800		REQUIRE "RANDOM[SYS,BGB]" SOURCE_FILE;
00900	
01000	The source file merely contains:
01100	
01200		REQUIRE "RANDOM[SYS,BGB]" LOAD_MODULE;
01300		EXTERNAL REAL PROCEDURE RANDOM;
01400	
01500	RANDOM  returns  a real number on the interval from zero inclusive to
01600	one exclusive.  See Knuth Vol 2, page 30 for further documentation of
01700	this routine and its statistical properties.