On Mar 31, 2005, at 6:25 AM, Sean Jewett wrote:
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Antonio Rodr�guez wrote:
Applesoft Basic's random number generator is surprisingly good when compared with those implemented in other flavours of Microsoft Basic (specially the GW-BASIC and QBASIC series from the IBM PC!).
Yeah, too good :^) I may never reach 25 heads or tails in a row.
Now it's up to count = 14,657,419 for max = 18
<linux & random numbers>
in fact, I seed my random number generator in the C program from /dev/random
which finds entropy in things like the time between keypresses.
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