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Date: | Thu, 1 Oct 1998 14:23:19 -0400 (EDT) |
Message-Id: | <199810011823.OAA00553@indy.delorie.com> |
From: | DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> |
To: | eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il |
CC: | djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com |
In-reply-to: | <Pine.SUN.3.91.981001211647.18395Q-100000@is> (message from Eli |
Zaretskii on Thu, 1 Oct 1998 21:17:11 +0300 (IDT)) | |
Subject: | Re: Proposed New Random |
> And second, one of the most valuable features of `random' is that all > its bits, inluding the LSB's, are random, so you could get a random > bit with "random() % 2". Does your algorithm have this feature? Actually, I think rand() has this property at the moment, because it uses a 64-bit seed and extracts the middle 32-bits for the return value.
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