On Mar 31, 2005, at 1:30 AM, Antonio Rodr�guez wrote:
Hi!
The matter is that gcc's standards libraries use a 32 or 64-bit seed (can't
remember what size it is exactly), but Applesoft (as all 8-bit Basic
flavour I know about) use a 16-bit seed.
Because of that (the 16-bit versus 32/64-bit seed), if your program runs
for large periods of time without asking for a keypress, it is in clear
disadvantage against the Linux version, and can start spitting the same
series of "random" numbers periodically. In theory, this should happen
before the 65,536th (2^16) iteration of the loop.
And that loop only has a run of 18 heads or tails in it. :^(
1) I am not seeding the random number generator... what's a simple way?
2) I am generating lots of numbers without key presses.. I wonder if
I should generate a large integer then use even/odd-ness for my coin flip.
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