On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 14:08:41 +0300, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:55:42 +0000, Mark Murray wrote: > > > > How do you _know_ that your newly chosen magic number isn't going to cause > > some kind of recurring (and too-short) sequence of numbers? > > I run simple test for it, it is not too short.
To be more specific - it never returns to 0 from this value at least in 2**31 iterations. You can test it by yourself, the code is obvious: srand(0) ... loop ... if (rand() == 0) print iteration number -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message