home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   comp.lang.c      Meh, in C you gotta define EVERYTHING      243,242 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 242,558 of 243,242   
   Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to James Kuyper   
   Re: srand(0)   
   24 Dec 25 05:34:40   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 23 Dec 2025 23:43:19 -0500, James Kuyper wrote:   
      
   > On 2025-12-23 21:02, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>   
   >> On Wed, 24 Dec 2025 00:08:24 +0200, Michael S wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Testing randomness is complicated matter.   
   >>   
   >> Impossible, really, if you define “random” as “Nobody can know what   
   >> comes next”.   
   >   
   > The quality of pseudo-random number generators can be measured, but you   
   > need to carefully define what you mean by "quality".   
      
   That’s not exactly disagreeing with what I’m saying ...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca