Re: [linux-audio-user] [ANN] ALSA MIDI Humanizer v0.0.1

Fons Adriaensen wrote:

>On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 09:42:43PM +0000, Cesare Marilungo wrote:
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>>But hydrogen source uses rand() as a random generator, when I've heard
>>that random() is much better (more uniform distribution) and in fact I
>>also changed rand() to random() from v0.0.1 to 0.0.2.
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>>From the man page:
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> The versions of rand() and srand() in the Linux C Library use the same
> random number generator as random() and srandom(), so the lower-order
> bits should be as random as the higher-order bits. However, on older
> rand() implementations, and on current implementations on different
> systems, the lower-order bits are much less random than the higher-
> order bits.
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>And even that doesn't matter unless you use only the lower bits.
>There is certainly no difference in the distribution if you divide
>by RAND_MAX to a [0...1] float result.
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Ok, right, on linux they're the same. Thank you. :-P

c.

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