Re: random numbers in fortran

lane straatman <grumpy196884@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Since I want to simulate shuffling a deck of cards, I guess I'll ask
for 52 pseudorandoms at a pop, multiply by 52 and take the floor.

Watch out for duplicates :-)

Try the Knuth shuffle instead, see for example
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuffling_playing_cards


I
believe this gives random ints between zero and fifty-one. Is a person
well advised to start his arrays at zero as with C?

Customary for Fortran is one, and this idiom usually causes
the least surprises.
.

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