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I'm looking for something I can use in C that will give me a random number between a and b. So something like rand(50) would give me a number between 1 and 50.
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I have this code for a arraylist of entities.
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I did this to test the randomness of randint:
>>> from random import randint
>>>
>>> uniques = []
>>> for i in range(4500): # You can see I optimistic.
... x = randint(500, 5000)
... if x in uniques:
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I've read about it on a message board - Random class isn't really random. It is created with predictable fashion using a mathematical formula.
Is it really true? If so, Random isn't really random??
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I am trying to generate a good random seed for a psudo-random number generator. I thought I'd get the expert's opinions. let me know if this is a bad way of doing it or if there are much better ways.
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <fstream>
#include <ctime>
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