Re: Finally a safe and math accurate random64bit function ! ;)
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Re: Finally a safe and math accurate random64bit function ! ;)

From: Skybuck Flying <spam@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat Apr 29 2006 - 13:41:00 CEST

I give up...

This whole idea of combining 4x 16 calls to random is bullshit.

Suppose we had used 8x8bits.

This would happen with input range 256 (9 bits with only 9th bit set) or
something like that.

Channel two would be 1
Channel one would be zero.

So than it's all or nothing.

Not much of random generator !

This whole idea is bogus.

The only correct way to make a 64 bit random function is with int64 etc.

Bye,
  Skybuck.
Received on Mon May 1 02:06:01 2006