From: Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net>
Subject: Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG.
Date: 29 Apr 2011 22:43:44 GMT
Date: 2011-04-29T22:43:44+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnirmg70.2n00.usenet-nospam@guild.seebs.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ipd5i2011p@news6.newsguy.com
On 2011-04-29, David Bernier <david250@videotron.ca> wrote:
> AFAIK, sizeof(unsigned long) can be relied upon to give the size
> in 8-bit bytes of a C "unsigned long".
No, it can be relied to give the size in "bytes" in C of "unsigned long",
but "byte" is just a synonym for "the type char", and there have been
systems where that's not 8-bit bytes.
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2011-04-28 1:14 ` KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG robin
2011-04-28 11:42 ` e p chandler
2011-04-29 1:50 ` David Bernier
2011-04-29 2:09 ` Ian Collins
2011-04-29 3:01 ` Eric Sosman
2011-04-29 3:09 ` Ian Collins
2011-05-08 7:34 ` Uno
2011-05-11 5:38 ` Marni Zollinger
2011-04-29 6:15 ` nmm1
2011-04-29 3:16 ` David Bernier
2011-04-29 2:34 ` glen herrmannsfeldt
2011-04-29 7:04 ` Uno
2011-04-30 10:48 ` robin
2011-05-05 1:12 ` Uno
2011-04-29 15:13 ` Keith Thompson
2011-04-29 17:41 ` glen herrmannsfeldt
2011-04-29 19:53 ` Keith Thompson
2011-05-05 23:38 ` Michael Press
2011-04-29 22:45 ` Seebs
2011-04-30 4:36 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-04-29 22:43 ` Seebs [this message]
2011-04-29 9:43 ` robin
2011-05-01 15:31 ` Thad Smith
2011-05-01 19:58 ` Ian Collins
2011-05-02 0:01 ` James Kuyper
2011-05-02 0:42 ` Ian Collins
2011-05-02 2:34 ` James Kuyper
2011-05-02 2:50 ` glen herrmannsfeldt
2011-05-02 4:21 ` Thad Smith
2011-05-02 7:31 ` nmm1
2011-05-23 4:18 ` robin
2011-05-23 7:20 ` robin
2011-05-23 6:52 ` robin
2011-05-23 6:52 ` robin
2011-05-23 6:52 ` robin
2011-05-23 6:53 ` robin
2011-05-23 7:16 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-06-28 7:19 ` robin
2011-06-28 8:44 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-06-28 9:19 ` Chris H
2011-06-28 9:14 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-06-28 11:59 ` robin
2011-06-28 12:16 ` Chris H
2011-06-28 15:44 ` Peter Flass
2011-06-28 12:33 ` James Kuyper
2011-06-28 13:53 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-06-28 22:39 ` Brian Salter-Duke
2011-06-28 12:32 ` James Kuyper
2011-06-28 13:03 ` Chris H
2011-06-28 14:25 ` James Kuyper
2011-06-28 15:01 ` Chris H
2011-06-29 0:20 ` James Kuyper
2011-06-29 8:38 ` Michael Press
2011-06-28 16:04 ` Joe Pfeiffer
2011-06-28 16:36 ` Chris H
2011-06-28 16:51 ` Joe Pfeiffer
2011-06-29 0:27 ` James Kuyper
2011-06-29 1:00 ` Joe Pfeiffer
2011-06-29 16:48 ` Phil Carmody
2011-06-28 16:52 ` Joe Pfeiffer
2011-06-28 17:06 ` David Bernier
2011-06-28 21:11 ` Gib Bogle
2011-06-29 4:47 ` Mart van de Wege
2011-07-02 6:49 ` Gib Bogle
2011-07-02 15:59 ` Mart van de Wege
2011-07-02 21:57 ` Gib Bogle
2011-06-29 7:36 ` nmm1
2011-06-29 9:58 ` Georg Bauhaus
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2010-07-25 0:49 ` Gene
2010-07-26 2:50 ` robin
2010-07-27 5:46 ` robin
2010-07-30 10:46 ` Uno
2010-08-03 10:41 ` robin
2010-08-03 17:15 ` James Waldby
2010-08-03 17:35 ` Dann Corbit
2010-08-03 20:34 ` Peter Flass
2010-08-04 4:20 ` Uno
2010-08-04 8:31 ` robin
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2010-08-05 21:07 ` Uno
2010-08-06 10:11 ` robin
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