Re: Redirect to STDOUT Problem

Richard Tobin <richard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article <g0cuqm$ael$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Walter Roberson <roberson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>>The low bit of rand() is often not very random at all -- often
alternating
>>between 0 and 1 each time.
> 
> This used to be true, 20-something years ago.  Surely modern
> implementations don't have the same problem?

I only know of *one* implementation that had that problem, and that was
more like 30 years ago.  (Someone at UCB "enhanced" a perfectly good
16-bit rand() to return 32 bit values by simply returning the entire
internal state rather than just the high-order 16 bits.)

-- Larry Jones

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