Re: A82: Random function

To: assembly-82@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A82: Random function
From: CrASH_Man <crashman@technologist.com>
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1998 23:25:39 -0700
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In-Reply-To: <19980403.145024.5439.0.Kouri@juno.com>
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> This e-mail is probably best addressed to Dines, Hideaki, or Jeff
> (Barubary), but what the hell. I'm just curious about the built-in random
> function (y'know, "rand"). How does the calc generate the random number?
> Does it use a timer like the apd or something? Just wondering...

That's one thing I _SHOULD_ do in the next release for CrASH...  Right
now it just does some offset stuff, adding stuff that's in memory and
shifting...  (sometimes gives bad results)

    [CrASH_Man]
        crashman@technologist.com
    [CrASH Landing!]
        http://crash82.home.ml.org

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A82: Random function

From: kouri@juno.com (Kouri Rosenberg)

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