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PGARandomFlip

flip a biased coin and return PGA_TRUE if the coin is a "winner."

Otherwise, return PGA_FALSE.

- context variable
- biased probability (.5 is a fair coin)

#include "pgapack.h"
int  PGARandomFlip(ctx, p)
PGAContext *ctx
double p

random.c

Example:
To return PGA_TRUE approximately seventy percent of the time, use
PGAContext *ctx;
int p;
:
PGARandomFlip(ctx, 0.7)