Abstract
Radom number generators are of great importance for many scientific and engineering applications. Although the PASCAL computer language is becoming increasingly important for such applications, in many computer systems no PASCAL functions are available for this purpose. This short note is concerned with the development of PASCAL functions for the generation f random numbers with uniform, exponential and normal distributions. The functions are based on well established mathematical methods and have been developed and tested on a VAX 11/785 minicomputer. However, the functions are written in standard PASCAL and can be used for other machines.