4-stable and C rand()?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 03:16:03PM +0100, David Malone wrote:

> Rather than use rand()%32 you might want to use something like
> (rand()+RAND_MAX/64)/(RAND_MAX/32) - using the high order bits means
> that you are not effectively reducing the side of the state space.

Or use a better PRNG like arc4random().

Kris
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