Chapter 14. Miscellaneous (MSC)
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MSC30-C. Do not use the rand() function for generating pseudorandom numbers
Pseudorandom number generators use mathematical algorithms to produce a sequence of numbers with good statistical properties, but the numbers produced are not genuinely random.
The C Standard rand() function makes no guarantees as to the quality of the random sequence produced. The numbers generated ...
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