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///Copyright Paul Reiche, Fred Ford. 1992-2002

/*
 *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 *  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 *  (at your option) any later version.
 *
 *  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 *  GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 *  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 *  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 *  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
 */
 
 /****************************************************************************
* FILE: random.c
* DESC: a library of random number generators for general purpose use.
*
* References:
* "Random Number Generators: Good ones are hard to find" S.K.Park & K.W.Miller
* Communications of the ACM, Vol31 Number 10, October 1988, Pp 1192-1201
*
* HISTORY: Created 1/23/1989
* LAST CHANGED:
*
* Copyright (c) 1989, Robert Leyland and Fred Ford
****************************************************************************/

/* ----------------------------INCLUDES----------------------------------- */
#include "mthintrn.h" /* get the externs for error checking */

/* ----------------------------DEFINES------------------------------------ */
/* constants for licongruential random number generator from CACM article
   referenced above */
#define A 16807 /* a relatively prime number -- also M div Q */
#define M 2147483647L /* 0xFFFFFFFF / 2 */
#define Q 127773L /* M div A */
#define R 2836 /* M mod A */

/* ----------------------------STATIC DATA-------------------------------- */

static DWORD seed = 12345L; /* random number seed */

/* ----------------------------CODE--------------------------------------- */

/*****************************************************************************
* FUNC: DWORD TFB_Random()
*
* DESC: random number generator
*
* NOTES:
*
* HISTORY: Created By Robert leyland
*
*****************************************************************************/

DWORD
TFB_Random (void)
{
	seed = A * (seed % Q) - R * (seed / Q);
	if (seed > M)
		return (seed -= M);
	else if (seed)
		return (seed);
	else
		return (seed = 1L);
}

/*****************************************************************************
* FUNC: DWORD TFB_SeedRandom(DWORD l)
*
* DESC: set the seed for the random number generator to parameter "l", and
* return the value of the previously active seed, to allow for multiple
* random number streams.
*
* NOTES: if the seed is not valid it will be coerced into a valid range
*
* HISTORY: Created By Robert leyland
*
*****************************************************************************/

DWORD
TFB_SeedRandom (DWORD new_seed)
{
	DWORD old_seed;

	/* coerce the seed to be in the range 1..M */
	if (new_seed == 0L) /* 0 becomes 1 */
		new_seed = 1;
	else if (new_seed > M) /* and less than M */
		new_seed -= M;

	old_seed = seed;
	seed = new_seed;
	return (old_seed);
}