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From: brashear@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us (Philip Brashear)
Subject: Re: Strange results with random numbers with Gnat 3.10
Date: 1998/01/08
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In article <34B3F618.DC9@uppsala.mail.telia.com>,
Andreas Almroth  <andreas.almroth@uppsala.mail.telia.com> wrote:
[... trying to adapt dice example in RM A5.2 ...]
>To my big suprise this was the result;
>
>Number  Frequency
>=================
>  1        249594
>  2        167104
>  3        166985
>  4        166687
>  5        166621
>  6         83009


Are you sure you used the example in the RM?  It's a two-dice example,
so the possible values are 2 .. 12, not 1 .. 6.  If you modified the
example to produce single-die results, are you sure you got the code
right?  (Honestly, though it seems easy, it's not trivial.)

Could you post your source?

(I wrote a two-dice version for the Ada Compiler Evaluation System, and,
as I recall, the earlier versions of GNAT produced acceptable results.)

Phil Brashear
EDS