The VAX MTH$RANDOM Generator in Python

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:36:00 +0000

So I needed the ole’ VAX MTH$RANDOM for a puzzle. I like python. Here’s what I came up with after reading some gsl docs:

def vax_rand(seed):
    a = 69069
    c = 1
    m = 2**32
    while True:
        seed = divmod(a * seed + c, m)[1] 
        yield seed

To use it (with a seed of 6), do this: v = vax_rand(6) and to get a number out of it, you could do print v.next().

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