"David J. Braden" <dbraden@nomail.invalid> wrote in message
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> Alex,
> I've been one (of many?) to have complained about Excel's rng's since
> Excel 2.0.
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The addin random is a basic disaster. It should never be used. It is a 16
bit linear congruential generator with an extremely short period. It fails
all tests on random number generators. It is in a package that dates back to
a contractor that built the tool-pak. Apparently there are some contract
aspects such that Microsoft can't change the algorithms.

DAH