[openbeos] Re: is rand() really random?

When you seed the rng use something decently random, not just time.

If you can, take time in seconds and divide by the lower bits of the tsc (if the cpu has one) that should mix things a bit better.

bye, scott

From: "Andre Stark" <An.Stark@xxxxxx>
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To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [openbeos] is rand() really random?
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 23:18:44 +0200 CEST

Hello there,
this is not really an OBOS problem, but a BeOS one. Everytime i execute
the following code:

for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++)
                cout << "Random:" << rand() <<endl;

the resulting values are exactly the same? Until now i do'nt know much
about C++ programming, but normally random numbers are generated by
including system time in some kind. How does this work on BeOS?

Greetings
  Andre Stark


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