Because if you put that in a loop you will get a series like:
3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5...
On Thursday, February 6, 2014 8:27:27 PM UTC-5, SVIX wrote:
>
> Just curious... Why is this more random than
> (getSystemTimeInMilliseconds() % 10)
>
> On Thursday, February 6, 2014 1:47:15 PM UTC-8, Don wrote:
>>
>> Just noticed that you asked for 1-10, and my code will clearly generate
>> 0-9. Add one for the desired range.
>> Don
>>
>> On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 4:29:26 PM UTC-5, Don wrote:
>>>
>>> // Using George Marsaglia's Multiply With Carry generator
>>> int rnd10()
>>> {
>>> static unsigned int x = time(0);
>>> x = 63663 * (x&65535) + (x>>16);
>>> return (x & 65535) % 10;
>>> }
>>>
>>> On Sunday, February 2, 2014 2:51:47 AM UTC-5, atul007 wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Generate random number form 1 - 10 with probability of 1/10.You are not
>>>> allowed to used rand() function.
>>>>
>>>> any simple way of achieving above with using any complex implementation
>>>> of random number generators algorithm .
>>>>
>>>
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