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| Date | 2015-06-07 11:56 -0700 |
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| From | "C.D. Reimer" <chris@cdreimer.com> |
| Subject | Re: Python Random vs. Cython C Rand for Dice Rolls |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
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On 6/7/2015 11:33 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > C rand is not even close to random. The technical term for it is "shite". Looking through the BASIC book, I remembered all the tricks needed to get a half-way decent number generator on a 1MHz processor back in the day. Either the numbers start repeating after a while or get stuck on a particular number. That's one of the challenges of converting these old games from BASIC to Python. A lot of the stuff done in BASIC was meant to get around the hardware limitations of the early computers. Chris R.
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Python Random vs. Cython C Rand for Dice Rolls "C.D. Reimer" <chris@cdreimer.com> - 2015-06-07 10:17 -0700
Re: Python Random vs. Cython C Rand for Dice Rolls Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-06-08 04:33 +1000
Re: Python Random vs. Cython C Rand for Dice Rolls "C.D. Reimer" <chris@cdreimer.com> - 2015-06-07 11:56 -0700
Re: Python Random vs. Cython C Rand for Dice Rolls Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-06-08 19:33 +0200
Re: Python Random vs. Cython C Rand for Dice Rolls Sturla Molden <sturla.molden@gmail.com> - 2015-06-08 23:44 +0200
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