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Пишет nancygold (![[info]](http://lj.rossia.org/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} nancygold)@ 2024-06-22 11:17:00 |
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| Настроение: |  amused |
| Entry tags: | computing |
Apparently 48-bit PRNGs were popular at one point
One even came with SVr1 Unix in 1983, called rand48 (drand48.s), which was state of art at the time:
https://sci-hub.ru/10.1002/j.1538-7
Yet the Unix one produced entire 32-bit number, while the PRNG I encountered uses all 48 bits to generate a single byte.
