On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:19:53 +0100, Florian Klaempfl <flor...@freepascal.org>
wrote:
>
> Oops, mails crossed. The assignment to randseed is indeed the problem.
> Why is it done? Bad random generator of delphi :)?
>
I don't know, how bad Delphis random generator is, but I once years ago did
make a mistake
of calling randomize before random. It was a school assignment for using Turbo
Pascal graphics.
So I made program, that was supposed to fill screen with random dots (colour
was also set with
random). Anyway, when I called randomize before random, then as a result dots
didn't fill the
screen, but were mostly along the diagonal of the screen. So I'd guess, that
setting randseed
multiple times could be actually bad for randomness of results. Or maybe modern
algorithms are
better at situations like this?
--
Virgo Pärna
virgo.pa...@mail.ee
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