From: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>
To: Vineet Joglekar <vintya@excite.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Random number generator in Linux kernel
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:31:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050308133149.GC31844@harddisk-recovery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050307231853.9F661B6E7@xprdmailfe20.nwk.excite.com>
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 06:18:53PM -0500, Vineet Joglekar wrote:
> I want a function where I will be supplying a seed to that function
> as an input, and will get a random number back. If same seed is used,
> same number should be generated again.
Google for "Numerical recipes in C", it has a complete section about
random numbers, including a couple of functions that do what you want.
Erik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-08 13:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-07 23:18 Random number generator in Linux kernel Vineet Joglekar
2005-03-08 0:25 ` J.
2005-03-08 4:40 ` Anindya Mozumdar
2005-03-08 12:59 ` Darío Mariani
2005-03-08 13:31 ` Erik Mouw [this message]
2005-03-09 20:39 ` Bill Davidsen
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