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[Mark Wieder]

Malte-

Thursday, February 11, 2010, 1:32:09 AM, you wrote:

> In most cases, this would make the sequence predictable (if you
> were to set the randomseed to a fixed value). 
> I have happened to have written a tiny article on predictable
> random numbers in the last newsletter:

> http://runrev.com/newsletter/february/issue86/newsletter3.php

<I really have to start reading those newsletters...>

Setting the randomseed to a fixed value does indeed provide a
repeatable random pattern, and that's one of the tools I use to
achieve random data testing and still be able to find and repeat a
problem data set.

Setting the randomseed to something less predictable can give results
that are more... er... random:

set the randomseed to the milliseconds

so it depends on what your intentions are.

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net