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Philippe J. Roussel
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‎04-23-2001 08:01 AM

‎04-23-2001 08:01 AM

HP BASIC-UNIX

I recently discovered that the HP BASIC-UNIX
(at least version 8.02 on HP-UX 10.20)
RANDOMIZE command exhibits a very strange and potentially harmful behaviour:
the first random number generated with the RND command after a RANDOMIZE call is systematically
a very small number (range 1.E-5).

Hint: I suppose RANDOMIZE somehow accesses the system clock to generate the RND seed.
Is this a late manifestation of some Y2K related problem?

Just to be sure:
I only checked this today.
Is today a special day for UNIX system clocks?
Immaterial beings observe time-space differently. Ergo to them,creation is still going on!
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