note 108707 added to function.rand

I've written my own rand()-function, it also works very fine: <?php function random($min, $max) { // md5() generates a hexadecimal number, so we must convert it into base 10 $rand = base_convert( md5( microtime() ), 16, 10); // the modulus operator doesn't work with great numbers, so we have to cut the number $rand = substr($rand, 10, 6); $diff = $max - $min + 1; return ($rand % $diff) + $min; } // test: $arr = array(); for ($i = 0; $i < 1000; $i++) { $arr[random(1, 10)]++; } for ($i = 1; $i <= 10; $i++) echo '<br />' . $i . ': ' . $arr[$i] . "\n"; ?> expected result would be about 100, my result: 1: 108 2: 100 3: 105 4: 92 5: 101 6: 88 7: 93 8: 114 9: 102 10: 97 ---- Server IP: 192.35.244.50 Probable Submitter: 83.215.58.31 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.rand.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/108707 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108707/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108707/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108707/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108707/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108707/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108707/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108707 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/108707 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php