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C
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C
C        SUBROUTINE RANDU
C
C        PURPOSE
C           COMPUTES UNIFORMLY DISTRIBUTED RANDOM REAL NUMBERS BETWEEN
C           0 AND 1.0 AND RANDOM INTEGERS BETWEEN ZERO AND
C           2**35. EACH ENTRY USES AS INPUT AN INTEGER RANDOM NUMBER
C           AND PRODUCES A NEW INTEGER AND REAL RANDOM NUMBER.
C
C        USAGE
C           CALL RANDU(IX,IY,YFL)
C
C        DESCRIPTION OF PARAMETERS
C           IX - FOR THE FIRST ENTRY THIS MUST CONTAIN ANY ODD INTEGER
C                NUMBER WITH NINE OR LESS DIGITS. AFTER THE FIRST ENTRY,
C                IX SHOULD BE THE PREVIOUS VALUE OF IY COMPUTED BY THIS
C                SUBROUTINE.
C           IY - A RESULTANT INTEGER RANDOM NUMBER REQUIRED FOR THE NEXT
C                ENTRY TO THIS SUBROUTINE. THE RANGE OF THIS NUMBER IS
C                BETWEEN ZERO AND 2**35
C           YFL- THE RESULTANT UNIFORMLY DISTRIBUTED, FLOATING POINT,
C                RANDOM NUMBER IN THE RANGE 0 TO 1.0
C
C        REMARKS
C           THIS SUBROUTINE IS SPECIFIC TO SYSTEM/10 AND WILL PRODUCE  R
C           2**33 TERMS BEFORE REPEATING.  THE REFERENCE BELOW DISCUSSES
C           SEEDS (65539 HERE), RUN PROBLEMS, AND PROBLEMS CONCERNING
C           RANDOM DIGITS USING THIS GENERATION SCHEME.  MACLAREN AND
C           MARSAGLIA, JACM 12, P. 83-89, DISCUSS CONGRUENTIAL
C           GENERATION METHODS AND TESTS.  THE USE OF TWO GENERATORS OF
C           THE RANDU TYPE, ONE FILLING A TABLE AND ONE PICKING FROM THE
C           TABLE, IS OF BENEFIT IN SOME CASES.  65549 HAS BEEN
C           SUGGESTED AS A SEED WHICH HAS BETTER STATISTICAL PROPERTIES
C           FOR HIGH ORDER BITS OF THE GENERATED DEVIATE.
C           SEEDS SHOULD BE CHOSEN IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DISCUSSION
C           GIVEN IN THE REFERENCE BELOW.  ALSO, IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT
C           IF FLOATING POINT RANDOM NUMBERS ARE DESIRED,AS ARE
C           AVAILABLE FROM RANDU, THE RANDOM CHARACTERISTICS OF THE
C           FLOATING POINT DEVIATES ARE MODIFIED AND IN FACT THESE
C           DEVIATES HAVE HIGH PROBABILITY OF HAVING A TRAILING LOW
C           ORDER ZERO BIT IN THEIR FRACTIONAL PART.
C
C        SUBROUTINES AND FUNCTION SUBPROGRAMS REQUIRED
C           NONE
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C
      SUBROUTINE RANDU(IX,IY,YFL)
      IY = IX*263159
      IF(IY)5,6,6
    5 IY = IY+2147483647+1
    6 YFL=IY
      YFL = YFL*.2910383E-10
      RETURN
      END