About rand

[Fred64]

Hi all

What algorithm is used in the built-in function rand() in C?

Thanks in advance
Fred

[Salem]

> What algorithm is used in the built-in function rand() in C?
It's random
The standard doesn't specify a particular algorithm, so even from the same seed, two different implementations can return different results.

Most tend to be variants of
http://random.mat.sbg.ac.at/~charly/server/node3.html