Oh, OK. I couldn't see what approximate calculations using logarithms had to do with random integers.
Also, I learned to use a slide-rule in the sixties; I 've never touched one again until I inherited an antique, a few years ago. Nobody was using slide-rules in the seventies, surely.
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good shorthand for "the time before computers, when math was done with meat and dinosaurs roamed the earth"
Oh, OK. I couldn't see what approximate calculations using logarithms had to do with random integers.
Also, I learned to use a slide-rule in the sixties; I 've never touched one again until I inherited an antique, a few years ago. Nobody was using slide-rules in the seventies, surely.