Thanks for contributing an interesting piece of code to the Monastery Catacombs! I will enjoy taking it apart to analyze what makes it tick!!! Education is a wonderful thing...

As for the discussion which ensued from the 1st post...I am a casual observer! It started getting deep for a while...but I persevered... I will say this, I am NOT a MS fan at all, and would NOT be willing to take a security hit for a PRNG!!! No matter HOW good it is!!!

Thanks again...

ki6jux

ps...Why did you use a Perl reserved word "die" as a variable name???...

"No trees were harmed in the creation of this node. However, a rather large number of electrons were somewhat inconvenienced."

In reply to Re: A better rand() for Win32 by pmonk4ever
in thread A better rand() for Win32 by bitshiftleft

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