On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 09:42:43PM +0000, Cesare Marilungo wrote: > But hydrogen source uses rand() as a random generator, when I've heard > that random() is much better (more uniform distribution) and in fact I > also changed rand() to random() from v0.0.1 to 0.0.2. >From the man page: The versions of rand() and srand() in the Linux C Library use the same random number generator as random() and srandom(), so the lower-order bits should be as random as the higher-order bits. However, on older rand() implementations, and on current implementations on different systems, the lower-order bits are much less random than the higher- order bits. And even that doesn't matter unless you use only the lower bits. There is certainly no difference in the distribution if you divide by RAND_MAX to a [0...1] float result. -- FA Follie! Follie! Delirio vano e' questo!
