Hi Charles
I have your book...maybe I should have looked at it more closely!!!
Thanks to all....ticks has done if for me for now.
Michael.
On Nov 29, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Charles Yeomans wrote:
Ot this -- <http://www.declaresub.com/iDeclare/libc/index.html>.
The last section explains how to get some random junk from /dev/
random. It works for Mac OS X and Linux.
On Nov 29, 2006, at 4:59 PM, Jose Maria Terry wrote:
If your program has internet access, perhaps must try this to get
a seed
http://www.random.org/
On Mie, 29 de Noviembre de 2006, 10:15 pm, Michael wrote:
Sorry if this brings peals of laughter, but I am trying to seed a
random instance using this.
const maxI = 2147483647
const minus_maxI=-2147483648
r.Seed=r.InRange(minus_maxI, maxI)
r.Seed is always the same // -2147484e+9
Any suggestions? :-)
thanks
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On Nov 29, 2006, at 21:15 UTC, Michael wrote:
Sorry if this brings peals of laughter, but I am trying to seed a
random instance using [itself].
There is no point in using a random sequence to seed itself; this gains
you absolutely nothing. Let it self-seed, or seed it from some other
source (such as, the number of milliseconds the machine has been
running or the /dev/random file or something like that).
Best,
- Joe
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