default random object?
Lionello Lunesu
lionello at lunesu.remove.com
Sun Feb 15 20:56:34 PST 2009
"Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message
news:gnafec$1cko$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Ok. Let me just note that rand()%max is a lousy method of generating
> random numbers between 0 and max-1 and everybody should put that in the
> bin with Popular Examples That Should Never Be Used, together with
> exponential Fibonacci, linear-space factorial, and bubblesort.
Yes yes, I know I know, but, honestly, when I'm generating noise for some
terrain generation or a random color, or some fuzzy AI behaviour, I don't
care about random periods that much and %max does the job. Nobody is using
%max for private key generation, AFAIK :)
L.
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