On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Janek <j-sz@xxxxx> wrote: > I wonder whether I can rely on the stability of mt_srand() and > mt_rand(). I want them to generate the same sequence for a fixed seed, > regardless of PHP version. Do you think I can trust it? > Janek > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > A while ago I saw on internals where someone was talking about why their random numbers weren't giving the same response using the same seed anymore after upgrading. The dev's said a random number is a random number and should never be relied upon to give the same result, ever. That may have been a different function, but I'm sure that mindset would persist across all random functions. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
