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    SubjectRe: 2.4.19pre2aa1
    On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 08:33:23AM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
    > This is a simple random number generator. It takes a pointer to your
    > own private long, somewhere in your code, and returns a long random
    > number with a period of 0xfffd4011. I ran a program for about a
    > year, trying to find a magic number that will produce a longer
    > period.
    >
    > You could add a ldiv and return the modulus to set hash-table limits.
    > ANDs are not good because, in principle, you could get many numbers
    > in which all the low bits are zero.
    >
    >
    > The advantage of this simple code is it works quickly. The disadvantages
    > are, of course, its not portable and a rotation of a binary number
    > is not a mathematical function, lending itself to rigorous analysis.

    Would you mind explaining what the point of this is? AFAICT this is
    meaningless noise inspired by the words "/dev/random".


    Bill
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