Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!gwyn@Brl-Vld.ARPA From: gwyn@Brl-Vld.ARPA (VLD/VMB) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Bug in rand() and srand() Message-ID: <8872@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Sat, 2-Mar-85 21:40:04 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.8872 Posted: Sat Mar 2 21:40:04 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Mar-85 02:15:52 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 3 It is well know that the rand() function returns numbers whose lowest bits are far from random. Try the new 48-bit random generators from UNIX System V instead.