Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 18:55:36 +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: <20010225185535.A55782@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <20010225092416.A46959@hamlet.nectar.com>; from n@nectar.com on Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 09:24:16AM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102251920150.6561-100000@besplex.bde.org> <200102250900.f1P90Qc12868@earth.backplane.com> <20010225092416.A46959@hamlet.nectar.com>
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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. -- 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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