From: "A. Sinan Unur" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Random numbers/George Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 14:14:47 -0400 Organization: Cornell University Sender: asu1 AT cornell DOT edu (Verified) Message-ID: <3395B097.5077@cornell.edu> References: <2 DOT 2 DOT 32 DOT 19970604162434 DOT 0069d50c AT gate> Reply-To: asu1 AT cornell DOT edu NNTP-Posting-Host: 128 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 14 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Alan Wilson wrote: > It sounds like to me that DJGPP doesnt have a truly random generator > then. > "Informal" random numbers are nice but it would be better if we could > generate truly random numbers where the frequency of all numbers were > the same... i guess ignorance is indeed bliss. this has nothing to do with DJGPP. as has been pointed out very clearly in previous responses to you, all computer generated random numbers are pseudo-random. (by the way, the only random distribution is _not_ the unifrom distribution.) -- Sinan