Following the instructions on this note will give you what is claimed by one of my postdocs to be a very good random number generator. You will see four files on the website: r1279.c The random number generator r1279.h A header file needed by r1279.c test.c A program which calls the generator and prints out the first 100 numbers it generates. makefile A `makefile' which compiles the program test.c together with r1279.c. Download them. Then, to create the executable `TEST', type make PROG=test The makefile might assume your compiler is called gcc. You will need to edit makefile and change gcc to gcc3 (or whatever) if your compiler has another name, as is the case on the cluster in room 106. When you compile for the first time you may get a warning about 'clock skew detected'. The code will still work okay, and the warning message should disappear if you recompile.