Re: [Bug-gnubg] Setting the random seed

[Michael Petch]

Rollouts use a different seed. Try

set rollout seed <number>

On 10-Mar-10, at 2:40 PM, Timothy Y. Chow wrote:

> Currently I do the majority of my rollouts (on my Linux box) by  
> preparing a text file that looks something like this---
>
> set gnubgid 0DNjwDDg6+ABDA:cAkTAAAAAAAA
> hint
> cmark move set rollout 1 2 3
> analyse rollout move
> save position "mypos.sgf"
>
> ---and then piping it to "gnubg -t".  What I want to do is to set  
> the seed for the random number generator.  If I add the command "set  
> seed 123" to the above text file, e.g., just before "analyse rollout  
> move", then gnubg will report "Seed set to 123".  However, this is  
> apparently a lie, because if you examine the actual rollout results,  
> the seed used will *not* be 123.  How do I set the seed to 123?
>
> Tim
>
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