Getting a *more* random value

[Ryan Rawson]

You could always bury the first value?

Also you could probably seed the pseudo random generator with the
results of another pseudo random sequence?  Basically just ensure each
process has a different PRNG seed and you should be golden.

Anyone want to speak to quality of the PNRG implented in uniform?  I
know the man page cites a journal entry, but I really dont have access
to it.  Clearly its good enough for generating test cases, no?

-ryan

On 3/28/06, Pupeno <pupeno@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hello.
> I have an application where new processes are launched which calculate one
> random number between 0 and 512 and then do something with that number and
> terminate.
> I am currently using random:uniform(513) - 1 but that gives me the same random
> value for all the processes for each run of the application. I see that
> consecutive calls would get other numbers but I only need one.
> How am I supposed to get a number that is not the same on every process ?
> Thank you.
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> Pupeno <pupeno@REDACTED> (http://pupeno.com)
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