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Re: random doesn't feel very random
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Leo |
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Re: random doesn't feel very random |
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Sun, 26 Aug 2012 07:25:08 +0800 |
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On 2012-08-26 04:55 +0800, Richard Stallman wrote:
> (random t) calculates a seed based on the current time.
> Unless it is done repeatedly in a very short time, that
> should make a different seed each time.
Every time I compose an email, (random t) is called. So the random
number stream I am getting is disrupted i.e. I am no longer getting an
uniform distribution.
Leo
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- Re: random doesn't feel very random, Leo, 2012/08/24
- Re: random doesn't feel very random, Richard Stallman, 2012/08/24
- Re: random doesn't feel very random, Andreas Schwab, 2012/08/24
- Re: random doesn't feel very random, Richard Stallman, 2012/08/25
- Re: random doesn't feel very random,
Leo <=
- Re: random doesn't feel very random, Richard Stallman, 2012/08/26
- Re: random doesn't feel very random, Achim Gratz, 2012/08/26
- Re: random doesn't feel very random, Leo, 2012/08/26
- Re: random doesn't feel very random, Stefan Monnier, 2012/08/26
- Re: random doesn't feel very random, Simon Leinen, 2012/08/27
- Re: random doesn't feel very random, Richard Stallman, 2012/08/26
- Re: random doesn't feel very random, Stefan Monnier, 2012/08/27
- Re: random doesn't feel very random, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/08/31
- Re: random doesn't feel very random, Stefan Monnier, 2012/08/31
- Re: random doesn't feel very random, chad, 2012/08/31