random/3 problems?

[Dave Sworin]

In gprolog 1.3.1 when I run random/3 with the call below I get integers.

random(1.0,10.0,RANDOM_NUMBER).

The 1.3.1 manual says that if both Base and Max are integers

then Number will be an integer.  I assumed this mean an integer

as determined by integer/1 built-in Prolog predicate.  ???

The work-around is easy enough with random/1 so this is not critical.

 

I also found the following calls to random/3 return the same random number:

:- randomize,random(1,10,M),randomize,random(1,10,N).  M and N are

the same.  This was only tested so far on a very old Fedora 2 platform,

Pentium III and I have not had a chance to try it on a more recent version

of Linux, but it doesn't seem right.  The actual calls where in two(2)

different goals, not right after each other, as shown above.

 

Dave