Re^2: how to get a 64bit random number with rand() ?

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Re^3: how to get a 64bit random number with rand() ?
by marto (Cardinal) on Mar 22, 2018 at 15:39 UTC

Random number.

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Re^4: how to get a 64bit random number with rand() ?

by Athanasius (Archbishop) on Mar 25, 2018 at 05:30 UTC

Random number generator

— one of my all-time favourites. :-)

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

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Re^3: how to get a 64bit random number with rand() ?
by bliako (Abbot) on Mar 22, 2018 at 17:03 UTC

the distribution the number is drawn from is what counts. Uniform then unless the sphere is not honest.

It is obvious that Einstein thought God to be singular (as per LanX) for the simple reason that a multitude of Gods would probably combine their random numbers which would result in a Gaussian again...

Polytheism results in an extremely biased (and predictable) Universe.

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Re^4: how to get a 64bit random number with rand() ?

by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Mar 22, 2018 at 17:07 UTC

Einstein stated that he believed in the pantheistic God of Baruch Spinoza. He did not believe in a personal God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings, a view which he described as naīve. –https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_and_philosophical_views_of_Albert_Einstein

News to me but also fun (again, for me).

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Re^4: how to get a 64bit random number with rand() ?

by bliako (Abbot) on Mar 23, 2018 at 13:37 UTC

Polytheism decreases entropy.

p.s. I am not sure these little, irrelevant, fun in my opinion, snippets are forbidden by the rules or frown upon my fellow Monks. If yes, please someone alert me.

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