Python Random vs. Cython C Rand for Dice Rolls

[C.D. Reimer]

On 6/7/2015 11:33 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> C rand is not even close to random. The technical term for it is "shite".

Looking through the BASIC book, I remembered all the tricks needed to 
get a half-way decent number generator on a 1MHz processor back in the 
day. Either the numbers start repeating after a while or get stuck on a 
particular number. That's one of the challenges of converting these old 
games from BASIC to Python. A lot of the stuff done in BASIC was meant 
to get around the hardware limitations of the early computers.

Chris R.