In article <3d9434b1@news.povray.org>, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> 
wrote:

>   Then it's a rather poor random number generator, I must say.
>   In a good random number generator, any combination of two numbers (including
> the same number twice) should be about equally probable.
>   Of course this is a very difficult issue.

I don't think this alone makes it so bad, its other characteristics seem 
fair. Not great, but not horrible. It is an extremely simple algorithm, 
I posted the code earlier in this thread.
If you want a really good generator, the Mersene Twister might be 
suitable...I've heard good things about it, and wrote an implementation 
of it that seems to work fine.


>   I wonder if an approach like the drand48() function would be better.

What approach would that be?

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