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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> "wtw" == William T Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
wtw> Well, what do you expect, working libraries on DOS? :) The
The ANSI standard stipulates that rand() returns an int if I recall
correctly. Hence the library implementors had no choice.
wtw> random number generator under Linux
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 g
On Wed, 01 Jul 1998, James Youngman wrote:
>You can also do this by reading one number from /dev/urandom and using
>it as a seed for rand(). In fact, that is probably a better approach
>than this chunk of code above.
One thing in particular I noticed early on - especially on DOS, is that
the ra
Joseph C. Tuttle wrote:
> Is there a simple way in Linux to generate a series of three hundred to
> four hundred unique random four digit numbers? I haven't done enough
> programming to write my own random number generator, but I do know Linux
> can generate them for its own uses. I have search
On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 12:40:21PM -0400, Joseph C. Tuttle wrote:
> Is there a simple way in Linux to generate a series of three hundred to
> four hundred unique random four digit numbers? I haven't done enough
> programming to write my own random number generator, but I do know Linux
> can gener
> "jct" == Joseph C Tuttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
jct> Is there a simple way in Linux to generate a series of three
jct> hundred to four hundred unique random four digit numbers? I
jct> haven't done enough programming to write my own random number
jct> generator, but I do know L
Is there a simple way in Linux to generate a series of three hundred to
four hundred unique random four digit numbers? I haven't done enough
programming to write my own random number generator, but I do know Linux
can generate them for its own uses. I have searched man and info pages,
and the "L
