From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Allegro and random numbers.
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On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote:

> >For comparison, `rand' has a period of at least 2^31, and `random' has 
> >much larger period.
> 
> But will these PRNGs have the same sequence on all platforms?

No, not unless you use the same sources for `rand' and `random' on all
platforms.  If you use different library sources, the random series
will be different.