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Park-Miller Pseudo-Random Number Generator

The Park-Miller PRNG, or MINSTD, is a linear congruential generator (LCG). The following FORTRAN 77 implementation has been adapted by Dick Valent and Fred Clare from the original Pascal version.

Save the code in minstd.f locally.

      REAL FUNCTION RAND()
C
C     THIS FUNCTION RETURNS A PSEUDO-RANDOM NUMBER FOR EACH INVOCATION.
C     IT IS A FORTRAN 77 ADAPTATION OF THE "INTEGER VERSION 2" MINIMAL
C     STANDARD NUMBER GENERATOR WHOSE PASCAL CODE APPEARS IN THE
C     ARTICLE:
C
C         PARK, STEVEN K. AND MILLER, KEITH W., "RANDOM NUMBER
C         GENERATORS: GOOD ONES ARE HARD TO FIND", COMMUNICATIONS OF
C         THE ACM, OCTOBER, 1988.
C
C     FORTRAN 77 IMPLEMENTATION BY DICK VALENT AND FRED CLARE.
C
      INTEGER MPLIER, MODLUS, MOBYMP, MOMDMP
      PARAMETER (MPLIER=16807, MODLUS=2147483647, MOBYMP=127773,
     &           MOMDMP=2836)
      COMMON  /SEED/ JSEED, IFRST
      INTEGER HVLUE, LVLUE, TESTV, NEXTN
      SAVE    NEXTN

      IF (IFRST .EQ. 0) THEN
        NEXTN = JSEED
        IFRST = 1
      END IF

      HVLUE = NEXTN / MOBYMP
      LVLUE = MOD(NEXTN, MOBYMP)
      TESTV = MPLIER * LVLUE - MOMDMP * HVLUE

      IF (TESTV .GT. 0) THEN
        NEXTN = TESTV
      ELSE
        NEXTN = TESTV + MODLUS
      END IF

      RAND = REAL(NEXTN) / REAL(MODLUS)
      END
C     ******************************************************************
      SUBROUTINE SRAND(ISEED)
C
C     THIS SUBROUTINE SETS THE INTEGER SEED TO BE USED WITH THE
C     COMPANION RAND FUNCTION TO THE VALUE OF ISEED. A FLAG IS SET TO
C     INDICATE THAT THE SEQUENCE OF PSEUDO-RANDOM NUMBERS FOR THE
C     SPECIFIED SEED SHOULD START FROM THE BEGINNING.
C
      INTEGER ISEED
      COMMON /SEED/ JSEED, IFRST
      JSEED = ISEED
      IFRST = 0
      END

The test program reads the seed from user input, initialises the PRNG, and prints 120 random numbers. Save the source as test.f:

C     ******************************************************************
C
C     TEST PROGRAM FOR PARK-MILLER MINIMUM STANDARD PRNG.
C
C     ******************************************************************
      PROGRAM TEST
      EXTERNAL SRAND
      REAL     RAND

      INTEGER ISEED, I
C
C     SEED THE PRNG.
C
      PRINT 100
      READ (*, *) ISEED
      CALL SRAND(ISEED)
C
C     PRINT RANDOM NUMBERS.
C
      PRINT 200, (RAND(), I = 1, 120)

  100 FORMAT (' MINIMUM STANDARD PSEUDO-RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR',/,
     &' ENTER POSITIVE INTEGER SEED: ',$)
  200 FORMAT (6(X,F8.6))
      END

To compile the program with f2c and cc, run:

$ f2c test.f minstd.f
test.f:
   MAIN main:
minstd.f:
   rand:
   srand:
$ cc -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib -o test test.c minstd.c -lf2c -lm

Execute the binary test and enter a seed value:

$ ./test
 MINIMUM STANDARD PSEUDO-RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR
 ENTER POSITIVE INTEGER SEED: 12345
  .096617  .833995  .947703  .035879  .011546  .051155
  .765787  .584930  .914130  .783800  .333147  .195113
  .267198  .792704  .983885  .148887  .339146  .034109
  .266209  .167422  .864355  .209134  .916656  .238527
  .930263  .935759  .306576  .629590  .512060  .197888
  .910652  .334800  .982207  .949422  .930865  .051522
  .923121  .887449  .356524  .105890  .695043  .583283
  .242648  .177783  .996805  .307225  .530595  .709502
  .604540  .498803  .378033  .598639  .325384  .724944
  .126170  .531389  .057093  .566858  .174015  .666624
  .942425  .335136  .624291  .461659  .096873  .142176
  .553942  .097587  .149666  .432333  .229085  .234817
  .574825  .076321  .731575  .583709  .397530  .286779
  .893567  .175130  .404572  .635562  .886772  .980693
  .510842  .713494  .691629  .211121  .307516  .423978
  .790774  .543005  .283237  .363854  .297176  .642360
  .137112  .448844  .721726  .046529  .017578  .439914
  .636726  .455505  .673117  .078640  .698700  .048598
  .783289  .737070  .928582  .672776  .337607  .154207
  .764502  .979016  .330066  .417451  .094551  .124548

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