From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Allegro and random numbers. Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 10:00:09 +0200 Organization: NetVision Israel Lines: 11 Message-ID: References: <38A020E4 DOT 9D28E963 AT tiscalinet DOT it> NNTP-Posting-Host: is.elta.co.il Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: news.netvision.net.il 950428994 7453 199.203.121.2 (13 Feb 2000 08:03:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse AT netvision DOT net DOT il NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Feb 2000 08:03:14 GMT X-Sender: eliz AT is In-Reply-To: To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: dj-admin AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk 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.