On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, David E. Fox wrote:
> One thing in particular I noticed early on - especially on DOS, is that
> the rand() function isn't good enough for certain applications, for
Well, what do you expect, working libraries on DOS? :) The random number
generator under Linux is reasonably good, as good as any quick-and-dirty
generator is. It's a 32 bit generator and the low bits are just as random
as the high bits.
random() is better than rand(), but only because you can set more options
on the function call. rand() is probably there for compatibility.
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