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    Random Numbers

    How does genertating random numbers work? I mean I know what it does, but how can I write a function to generate my own totally random numbers.?

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    Thantos, he's asking how he can generate them on his own, without using the standard rand( ) method.
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    I think the book called Numerical Recipies talks a lot about this

    in the following link scroll down to chapter 7 to read the pdf files

    http://www.library.cornell.edu/nr/bookcpdf.html

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    This site explains how to use the generator that your compiler's rand() probably implements. However, linear congruential generators are very bad compared to other generators out there.

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    http://directory.google.com/Top/Comp..._Numbers/?tc=1
    It's hard to know whether rand() or prime() has more coverage.
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