Random Numbers

[H. Chen, Nick Jacobs]

Recently a friend and I needed some random numbers for a game (sigh) program.
Since we just wanted to generate a small range of values, we simply made an
array with the range of values in it. Since we knew that the user's "access"
to these psuedo-random values would be semi-random in itself; we simply creat-
ed a mini Turing machine algorithm (sort of) where the value returned would be 
dependent on the state of the algorithm from a prior call. (It was like a Turing
machine in that we moved up and down the array depending upon the previous state
of the algorithm.) 

We haven't had a chance to test this algorithm heavily, but the game (for the
PC) was like pong in which the ball's movement is already semi-random due to
the fact that most people cannot control the ball that well.

					Nicholas Jacobs
					chen at acf4 (just for the summer)
					...cmcl2!acf4!chen