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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – If you wanted a random number, historically you could do worse than to pick a sequence from the string of digits in pi. But Purdue University scientists now say other sources ...

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Hey guys. I am trying to write a simple Library Module for generating random numbers. I am very new to Modula-2 and cannot find decent bit manipulation modules to implement the algorithms I want to ...