note 9021 deleted from function.srand by vincent
| From: | vincent@php.net | Date: | Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:05:42 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 9021 deleted from function.srand by vincent | ||
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Note Submitter: fgm@osinet.fr
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I think one of the possibly best explanations why seeding repeatedly is not a good idea is in
Knuth's "The art of computer programming". Quite a masterpiece on (pseudo-)randomness
and many other similar issues (like factorization).