On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 07:01:53AM -0700, Frederik Eaton wrote: > If it's the pseudorandomness, I think mentioning that is redundant, > and the same thing I said about not wanting implementation in the API > applies - a good pseudorandom number generator should be externally > indistinguishable from an actual random number generator.
Disagree. There's a useful distinction between the two. Generally, someone using pseudorandom numbers expects them to happen quickly and repeatably. Someone using random numbers expects them to be really random. David _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
