[net.bugs] rand

norskog (03/25/83)

#N:fortune:1800002:000:248
fortune!norskog    Mar 24 14:01:00 1983

But you're right, just about all distributions of the rand()
function are dead wrong.  When the rogue game was being developed
this caused early versions to be very odd, because some
of the magic items, notably two-handed swords, never appeared.