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Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 17:11:46 -0800
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: rand() is broken
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Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 04:37:07PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > I can fire up my HP/UX and SunOS 4.1.3-U1 boxes too, if you need
> > those, but I'm pretty sure the reason you got a different answer
> > for newer Solaris was because it uses the SVR4 code, instead.
> 
> That's the whole point!  You should not expect the
> output from random() for a given seed to produce the
> same sequence of numbers on different platforms.

No, the point is that *you* think I should not expect it, when
historically, whether I *should* or not, I've been able to.

-- Terry

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