According to Jesper Lund:
Is there a well-defined standard for the ANSI, GNU or BSD `rand' function? If so, where can I find it? The only thing I have is the source code for rand in my DJGPP C library.
What I have seen is the source code of the BSD random number generator. It contains kind of scientific paper about why these are good random numbers. BTW, to initialize the actual random number generator - and only for this purpose -, they use yet another, very primitive random number generator which has about the same quality as that of BP ... ;-)
Peter
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