At 2022-12-28T00:33:13+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> The only problem with arc4random() is the lack of repeatability. When
> testing a program with random data, you'll need repeatable results.
> For that, rand(3) Just Works. When you want unpredictable results,
> you just seed it with some really random value, and you're fine. You
> need to be careful to not introduce bias, but there's nothing better
> in libc. It would be nice if libc provided a rand_uniform(3) variant
> of rand(3), BTW.
Permit me to counsel against that last proposed name. In probability
theory "uniform" is already widely and well understood to indicate the
nature of the distribution. A "uniform" distribution is one in which
each outcome is precisely equally likely.
rand_deterministic() would get the right idea across but is lengthy.
Regards,
Branden
P.S. I asked Bertrand to tag groff 1.23.0.rc2 earlier today. Happy
belated Boxing Day. ;-)
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