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rand() Considered Harmful
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Stephan T. Lavavej's GoingNative 2013 talk explaining why calling rand() and using rand() % 100 is bad in C++, and how the C++11 <random> header does the job properly.
It is the standard reference for why rand() is broken in C++ and what to use instead.
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