Comment by snet0

If someone can access it, my university notes where I looked into LCGs such as this discusses that in Numerical Recipes, 1992 C Edition, a clever LCG can be used to generates random numbers between 0 and 1. Using a 32 bit int generated by a fast LCG modulo 2^32. The cleverness is that you treat this value as a float. It uses a bit mask to mask only the mantissa of a float-32, and then is OR'd with a value to set the exponent to 127. Subtracting 1 from this results in a random value between 0 and 1, using only simple or bitwise operations!