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From: johnherro@aol.com (John Herro)
Subject: Random Number Generator
Date: 1998/11/13
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"niel.williams" <niel.williams@virgin.net> writes:
> Has any one got a simple random number
> generator prog that generates numbers
> between 1-10?

If you have an Ada 95 compiler, the answer is simply to use the package
Ada.Numerics.Discrete_Random, which comes with the language.  This program
keeps displaying random integers from 1 to 10:

with Ada.Text_IO, Ada.Numerics.Discrete_Random;
use  Ada.Text_IO;
procedure Test is
  subtype S is Integer range 1 .. 10;
  package My_Random is new
       Ada.Numerics.Discrete_Random(S);
  use My_Random;
  G : Generator;
begin
  Reset(G);
  loop
    Put(Integer'Image(Random(G)));
  end loop;
end Test;

If you have an Ada 83 compiler, the answer is much more complicated, but the
compiler *may* have come with a package to do what you want.

- John Herro
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