Hi, I just jumped in on this thread because I'm curious about something.
William Wilson wrote:
> random() is better than rand(), but only because
> you can set more options on the function call.
> rand() is probably there for compatibility.
"man 3 rand" on my RH5.0 system produces:
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"The versions of rand() and srand() in the Linux C Library
use the same random number generator as random() and sran-
dom()..."
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Therefore, isn't it possible to derive exactly the same
functionality/results from rand as random? I thought those features,
such as initstate and setstate, effected the random number generator,
and since they both use the same random number generator.......
What are these extra options? What am I missing? I've always used rand
on linux because of the fact that I thought it performed equally to
random. As a result, I saw rand() and srand() as being slightly better
because they take less time to type. ;-)
Regards,
David Taylor.
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