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From: bts@mcnc.UUCP (Bruce T. Smith)
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: random bignums
Message-ID: <2630@mcnc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 23:02:26 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  6 23:02:26 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 8-Mar-85 03:20:56 EST
Organization: Microelectronics Ctr. of NC; RTP, NC
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Does anyone have suggestions for generating random bignums?
Currently, we're using several calls to random-- shifting
and adding each time-- to generate a number bigger than we
need.  Then we mod this by the desired upper bound.
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