rand() limitations?

[VincentP]

Hi,

Does any of you know how many different sequences one can get by changing the seed of rand(). Since srand takes an unsigned int as its argument, I guess this means only 65000 sequences... does anyone know of an algorithm which can generate more sequences? (Say of the order of a "long" type? I'd like at least millions of sequences...)

Vincent

 

[Cagliostro]

as you see is long, but long (4 bytes) can give you one of more than 1000*4mln numbers. Ion Filipski

filipski@excite.com