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Change magic number generation #7

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Tharre opened this issue May 24, 2015 · 0 comments
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Change magic number generation #7

Tharre opened this issue May 24, 2015 · 0 comments
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Tharre commented May 24, 2015

Using rand() for generating the magic numbers is bad because it only guarantees 2^15 different values.

Possible solutions:

  • ship our own random number generator (needless complexity, existing implementations?)
  • don't use random numbers but just increment by 1 (additional state)
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