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.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF |
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE. |
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.\" |
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.\" $OpenBSD: random.3,v 1.25 2014/07/18 06:20:36 jmc Exp $ |
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.\" $OpenBSD: random.3,v 1.26 2014/11/25 17:40:38 millert Exp $ |
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.\" |
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.Dd $Mdocdate: July 18 2014 $ |
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.Dd $Mdocdate: November 25 2014 $ |
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.Dt RANDOM 3 |
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.Os |
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.Sh NAME |
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.Nm srandomdev , |
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.Nm initstate , |
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.Nm setstate |
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.Nd better random number generator; routines for changing generators |
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.Nd pseudo-random number generator; routines for changing generators |
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.Sh SYNOPSIS |
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.In stdlib.h |
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.Ft long |
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.Sh AUTHORS |
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.An Earl T. Cohen |
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.Sh BUGS |
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About 2/3 the speed of |
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.Xr rand 3 . |
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The historical implementation used to have very weak seeding. |
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As a result, the random sequence did not vary much with the seed. |