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00100 RANDOM - SAIL ACCESSIBLE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR
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00300 Bruce g. Baumgart
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00600 The require source file statement for declaring the RANDOM routine is:
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00800 REQUIRE "RANDOM[SYS,BGB]" SOURCE_FILE;
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01000 The source file merely contains:
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01200 REQUIRE "RANDOM[SYS,BGB]" LOAD_MODULE;
01300 EXTERNAL REAL PROCEDURE RANDOM;
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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.