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From: tkacik@kyzyl.mi.org (Tom Tkacik)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: random numbers?
Message-ID: <292@kyzyl.mi.org>
Date: 11 Feb 91 11:29:51 GMT
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In article <3#3Gz8.j@cs.psu.edu>, flee@cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes:
> >Is there some problem with perl's srand and rand functions?

> makes the problem less apparent.  But LCRGs suffer from many flaws.
> Avoid rand() if you want good random numbers.

Would it be difficult to put into the Config script, a check to see if
either random(BSD) or lrand48(SYSV) exist, and to allow Perl to use them?
Both of these are supposed to be much better random number
generators than rand().

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