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Re: rand() and srand() broken?
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Re: rand() and srand() broken?

  • Subject: Re: rand() and srand() broken?
  • From: Derek Gaston <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:47:09 -0700
On Nov 25, 2009, at 12:41 PM, Clark Cox wrote:

> Yes. If you pass the same value to seed(), you will get the same
> sequence of values from rand(). Period. Any implementation of
> srand/rand that does not do this is broken. From the C Standard:

Indeed... note that this wasn't about passing the _same_ value... it was about passing similar values to srand... like singularly increasing integers...

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