Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 14:23:19 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199810011823.OAA00553@indy.delorie.com> From: DJ Delorie To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il CC: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com In-reply-to: (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 1 Oct 1998 21:17:11 +0300 (IDT)) Subject: Re: Proposed New Random > And second, one of the most valuable features of `random' is that all > its bits, inluding the LSB's, are random, so you could get a random > bit with "random() % 2". Does your algorithm have this feature? Actually, I think rand() has this property at the moment, because it uses a 64-bit seed and extracts the middle 32-bits for the return value.