Erm excuse me, the seed should be 4 BYTES, not bits. I should really check my posts better before hitting send... On 4/4/06, Matthijs <thotter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > altough it returns a number between 0 and 32767, it indeed saves a 32 > bit number, so the cycle length of this linear congruential generator > is actually 2^32. So yes, the seed should be 4 bits and the generator > is better then I first tought. Sorry about that, I should have checked > the code a bit more careful.