Re: Random Number generator -- MIDRANGE-L

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boothm@ibm.net wrote:

> John, you make a good point.  That is the future, no doubt.  But I have
> always wondered why RPG, a business oriented program, would have an opcode
> for square root but not an rng.
>
>

Or why RPG (not ILE RPG) had never had a code for exponentiation.  Trying to
exponential x**y is an interesting exercise in RPG.  Thank goodness the new EVAL
in ILE RPG lets you do a lot of things which were almost impossible (read lot of
work) in the earlier versions of RPG.  Good job IBM in providing EVAL and
procedures.

--
Thank You.

Regards

Dave Mahadevan.. mailto:mahadevan@fuse.net

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