Date:	Thu, 1 Oct 1998 14:23:19 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id:	<199810011823.OAA00553@indy.delorie.com>
From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To:	eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
CC:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.981001211647.18395Q-100000@is> (message from Eli
	Zaretskii on Thu, 1 Oct 1998 21:17:11 +0300 (IDT))
Subject:	Re: Proposed New Random

> And second, one of the most valuable features of `random' is that all
> its bits, inluding the LSB's, are random, so you could get a random
> bit with "random() % 2".  Does your algorithm have this feature?

Actually, I think rand() has this property at the moment, because it
uses a 64-bit seed and extracts the middle 32-bits for the return
value.

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