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Subject: Re: Randomness of MSC 5.1 rand()
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Date: 9 May 89 15:58:00 GMT
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/* Written 11:26 am  May  7, 1989 by michelbi@oregon.uoregon.edu in osiris.cso.uiuc.edu:comp.lang.c */
/* ---------- "Randomness of MSC 5.1 rand()" ---------- */
How good (i.e. random) is the rand() function in MSC 5.1/QC 2.0?
Press, Flannery, Teukolski, and Vetterling of "Numerical Recipies
in C" fame caution the reader to be "very, very suspicious" of any
system-supplied rand() function.  Does anybody have any comments on
Microsoft's rand() function?
 
Thank you for the help.
 
Michel Biedermann
U. of Oregon
ZENITH Student Rep.
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