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On 07/19/2013 03:07 PM, Bill Findlay wrote:
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> Why not use Ada.Numerics.{Discrete,Float}_Random ?

Those are excellent when you don't care what sequence of values you get from the 
generator with different compilers or different platforms, but in those cases 
where you need to portably obtain the same sequence for the same seed value(s), 
you need to use something else.

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Jeff Carter
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