franz lisp (random) bug

Bruce Nemnich bruce at godot.UUCP
Thu Jun 14 12:03:40 AEST 1984


In the 4.2bsd franz (I don't know about others), (random) has the 
extremely non-random property of alternating even and odd numbers.

To repeat, (loop for i from 1 to 20. collecting (random 2)).

I am not an expert on random-number algorithms, so if anyone has a good
fix, please let me know.
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