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Subject: Re: I plan to change random() for -current (was Re: rand() and random())
In-Reply-To: <199610071850.LAA14614@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at "Oct 7, 96 11:50:42 am"
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From: "=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=" (Andrey A. Chernov) <ache@nagual.ru>
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> Here we have an issue where the technical merit is relative: it depends
> on if you depends on the "random" behaviour" or if you depends on the
> "pseudo" behaviour.  This is the main ideological debate.

Your "pseudo" idea is technically wrong.
Standard says that ([...] my comments)
"THIS function [NOT all possible
old and future implementations of this function] produce the
same sequence for same seed".

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
<ache@nagual.ru>
http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/