Re: Bug #12312: array_mt_rand() ?
| From: | Jani Taskinen | Date: | Fri, 27 Jul 2001 16:33:06 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Bug #12312: array_mt_rand() ? | ||
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I was wondering this same thing a while ago.
Nobody bothered to answer to my question if
we should always use the mt_rand() instead of the
system specified ones.. any ideas why not?
--Jani
On 23 Jul 2001 lramsey@crystalorb.net wrote:
>From: lramsey@crystalorb.net
>Operating system: Linux 2.4.3
>PHP version: 4.0.6
>PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
>Bug description: array_mt_rand() ?
>
>As the mt_rand() algorithim creates better random numbers than rand(),
>would it be possible to include in future releases of the language to
>include a version of array_rand() that uses mt_rand()?
>