Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 11:45:34 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Josh MacDonald) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: I plan to change random() for -current (was Re: rand() and random()) Message-ID: <199610081845.LAA16678@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199610080822.BAA18793@paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU> from "Josh MacDonald" at Oct 8, 96 01:22:08 am
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> > But I'm also tired of Terry blowing things WAY out of proportion. > > > > Nobody has even thought about tinkering with rand48. > > > > Nobody needing serious random numbers uses rand(). > > So now that we've all agreed that serious users of random numbers don't > use the system's rand(), can we all agree that for non-serious users > who just want a little randomness for playing a game or disolving an > image could use a better rand() function so that their programs don't > suck on FreeBSD? For instance, they could use the better rand() function rand48 instead. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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