On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 04:04:57PM -0800, Paul Herman wrote: > What's the concesus that arc4random() should be a drop-in > replacement for rand()/random()? Consider the following that > caclulates the average of a bunch of random numbers on [0.0, 1.0]:
rand() and random() return signed values (int and long respectively). arc4random() returns an uint32_t. This explains the shift of 0.5 in your result. Kris
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