bandy@amdcad.AMD.COM (Andy Beals) (05/26/87)
In article <6800001@cpe> tif@cpe.UUCP writes: ^^^^^^^ down with notes! >For equal portions of "water" to "fall" on each side of an obstacle >the following change should be made to rot.c on line 395 (?): > > else if(rand()&01000) { >Should be > else if(rand()&1) { Nope. rand() doesn't give truely random numbers, just pseudo-random numbers. Try writing a little program that prints the output of rand()&1 and note what you get out. Not random at all. andy -- Andrew Scott Beals, {lll-crg,decwrl,allegra}!amdcad!bandy +1 408 749 3683
aad+@andrew.cmu.edu.UUCP (05/27/87)
Rand will give you a better random number if you use it in a real program, not just inside a constant-time loop in a "little program"