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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1997-07-17 16:34:52 (GMT)
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\section{Standard Module \sectcode{whrandom}}
+\label{module-whrandom}
\stmodindex{whrandom}
This module implements a Wichmann-Hill pseudo-random number generator
@@ -36,7 +37,14 @@ When imported, the \code{whrandom} module also creates an instance of
the \code{whrandom} class, and makes the methods of that instance
available at the module level. Therefore one can write either
\code{N = whrandom.random()} or:
-\begin{verbatim}
+\bcode\begin{verbatim}
generator = whrandom.whrandom()
N = generator.random()
-\end{verbatim}
+\end{verbatim}\ecode
+%
+\begin{seealso}
+\seemodule{random}{generators for various random distributions}
+\seetext{Wichmann, B. A. \& Hill, I. D., ``Algorithm AS 183:
+An efficient and portable pseudo-random number generator'',
+Applied Statistics 31 (1982) 188-190}
+\end{seealso}