From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!eisx!whuxlb!eric Newsgroups: net.bugs Title: Re: non-randomness in rand() - (nf) Article-I.D.: whuxlb.1038 Posted: Tue Mar 22 17:43:54 1983 Received: Wed Mar 23 20:34:49 1983 #R:p500vax:-17800:whuxlb:1800003:000:484 whuxlb!eric Mar 22 17:22:00 1983 ***** whuxlb:net.bugs / p500vax!pat / 8:39 pm Mar 18, 1983 rand(), the random number generator in the UNIX library, returns alternating even and odd numbers. ---------- well, i'm running UNIX 5.0, and here is my program: main() { while (1) printf("%ld\n",rand()); } and sample output: 16838 5758 10113 17515 31051 5627 23010 7419 16212 4086 2749 12767 9084 looks pretty distributed to me!?! maybe you're running a different UNIX??? Eric Holtman harpo!whuxlb!eric