On Mon 18 Feb, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > My general understanding about random numbers on computers > is that the question to ask is 'well, how "random" do you > want it?' in that it's very hard for an essentially > non-random machine to fake "random" numbers for you;
Thank you Nick, but I really don't think this is an issue with pseudo random number generators per se, it appears to be a bug in the *particular* rand function used by RISC OS Perl. I noticed that the copy of UnixLib you have on your website provides a rand function. I can't think why you would choose to use that rand function instead of the standard one provided by C but if you did then maybe the problem lies there. PS. Who maintains UnixLib anyway, and where can I get hold of the latest version? -- James Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Based in Southam, Cheltenham, UK. PGP key available ID: 3FBE1BF9 Fingerprint: F19D803624ED6FE8 370045159F66FD02
