On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:05 AM, Aditya Mahajan <adit...@umich.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote:
>
>> Hallo,
>>
>> I get allways (10 times at least) the same result:
>> -------------------------------------------------------------
>> \starttext
>> \startluacode
>> math.randomseed(os.time())
>> \stopluacode
>>
>> Encode your Name and Surname as a
>> \startluacode
>> local a = {'null-terminated', 'dollar-terminated', 'Pascal'}
>> context('%s string', a[math.random(1,3)])
>> \stopluacode
>> \stoptext
>> -------------------------------------------------------------
>> How can I randomize this?
>
> Hmm... which version are you using? I do get a ranom output each time.
> Tested with 2009.12.31 and 2010.03.20.
>
> Since the math seed is set after \starttext, it should overwrite the value
> after reading the tuc file.
Same here:
# for j in `seq 1 100`; do context test.tex &> /dev/null; pdftotext
test.pdf -|grep Encode; done >> out
# nl out |tail -1
100 Encode your Name and Surname as a null-terminated string
# grep 'Encode your Name and Surname as a Pascal string' out |nl|tail -1
33 Encode your Name and Surname as a Pascal string
# grep 'Encode your Name and Surname as a dollar-terminated string'
out |nl|tail -1
35 Encode your Name and Surname as a dollar-terminated string
# grep 'Encode your Name and Surname as a null-terminated string' out
|nl|tail -1
32 Encode your Name and Surname as a null-terminated string
which is pretty good for only 100 samples
--
luigi
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