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                              Titles:  SEED
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Contact:  D. Wark, Oxford.
 
 
    Revision History:-
    ================
 
    2.06  N. West     Remove note about NORRAN.
    2.08  D. Wark     Complete recode to implement routine of Marsaglia, Zaman
                      and Tang.
    2.09  N. West     Update this file to reflect the above change.
    5.00  N. West     Add N_RAN_CALLS_PRINT, N_RAN_CALLS_TRAP. 
    5.01  N. West     Add second seed for initialisation code.


 
Titles Files
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mc_seeds.dat
 
 
Verification
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Description
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Bank Number:  = 1 normal execution seeds   = 2  initialisation seeds

    This bank contains the seeds for the Marsaglia, Zaman and Tang random
number generator.
 
 
Data Words
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        Fixed length Database Header.  See titles_dbhdr.html
 
       I = integer, F = floating point.
 
  1  I   ISEED   First integer seed (allowed range is 1 - 31328 )
  2  I   ISEED   Second integer seed (allowed range is 1 - 30081 )
  3  I   NSEED   Start from this point in the sequence.
 
         The remaining words used for debug work (see SNORAN_DBG).

  4  I   N_RAN_CALLS_PRINT. If >0 call SNORAN_DBG once N_RAN_CALLS exceeds.
  5  I   Print debug message in SNORAN_DBG if = N_RAN_CALLS.


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