Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 21:45:54 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Proposed New Random
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On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, DJ Delorie wrote:

> > 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.

It would be interesting to run some tests on it from Knuth's v.3.  Any 
takers?