[randog]

Great book. My wife couldn't understand why (a) someone wrote a book on pi, and (b) why I was so engrossed with it. But she likes the money I bring home because I understand its importance (along with a few other constants...;^)

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Yeah, my first PC had a FORTRAN compiler but no built in random number generator. I coded one up from the routines in Numerical Recipes.

M' wife asks me what I'm doing, so I explains that I'm making a random number generator and why that's important. She looks at me and shakes her head, saying, "I'll never understand what you do."

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

BTW, are you at all familiar with "Beckmann–Spizzichino"? It's a classic.