Wow. Thank you. Yes, I need a PRNG that outputs the same numbers as the old one. If I can implement it in Perl so that I don't have to worry about it ever changing again and it is the same on multiple platforms, awesome!

winrand()/(1<<15) does appear to output the correct test numbers with my test seeds. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to use winrand(EXPR) the same way I would use rand(EXPR) ("returns a random fractional number greater than or equal to 0 and less than the value of EXPR").

For example, srand 0;print int(rand(99)) for 0..9 must always yield 023647263525973192.

In reply to Re^2: Old random number generator by Pascal666
in thread Old random number generator by Pascal666

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