Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 19:13:17 +0300 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, Nick Sayer <nsayer@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/astro/xglobe/files patch-random Message-ID: <20010225191316.A56093@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <20010225185535.A55782@nagual.pp.ru>; from ache@nagual.pp.ru on Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 06:55:36PM %2B0300 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102251920150.6561-100000@besplex.bde.org> <200102250900.f1P90Qc12868@earth.backplane.com> <20010225092416.A46959@hamlet.nectar.com> <20010225185535.A55782@nagual.pp.ru>
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On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 18:55:36 +0300, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 09:24:16 -0600, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > > My conclusion is that either: > > > > Our implementation of `rand' loses. > > We can easily improve much our rand() random distribution staying inside > the same API by using just different calculation formula, as we already do > with random(). I plan to do it long time ago, but lost interest. I can dig > out this formula, if someone is interested. We already use this formula (in different context), see good_rand() function in stdlib/random.c -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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