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6.1.2 Calling the Base Generators

With the exception of the Blum-Blum-Shub generator, there are no interfaces for direct access to the base generators. All of the base generators return variates uniformly distributed over the open interval (0,1). This functionality can be accessed using the uniform distributional generator DRANDUNIFORM, with parameter A=0.0 and parameter B=1.0 (see DRANDUNIFORM). The base generator used is, as usual, selected during the initialization process (see Initialization of the Base Generators).

To directly access the Blum-Blum-Shub generator, use the routine DRANDBLUMBLUMSHUB.