Title: mrandom Version: 1 Submitted: Dec 14 1991 Author: Clark Thomborson Submittor: Clark Thomborson Description: A random number generator with persistent state I wrote this package to overcome some troubles I had with the random() package. I had been saving random()'s state table to a disk file, then restarting the random sequence in the next program run. I discovered some seriously non-random behavior in the numbers resulting from this practice. Further investigation (including examination of the object code for random() -- painful!) showed me that it is necessary to count the number of calls to random() in order to safely restart it. Hence the enclosed code. [ I added all, clean, and install targets to the Makefile. --vix ]