From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!p500vax:pat Newsgroups: net.bugs Title: non-randomness in rand() Article-I.D.: p500vax.178 Posted: Fri Mar 18 20:39:43 1983 Received: Tue Mar 22 06:37:35 1983 rand(), the random number generator in the UNIX library, returns alternating even and odd numbers.