On Friday, 3 January 2014 at 01:01:21 UTC, Frustrated wrote:
On Thursday, 2 January 2014 at 20:38:10 UTC, Jeroen Bollen wrote:[...] e.g.,seed(k); for(i = 1..10) print(rnd(i)); and for(i = 1..10) { seed(time); print(rnd(i)); }will both produce random sequences of numbers(and random sequences of numbers are "identically random".[...]
The second example is error-prone. If "time" var doesn't change between cycle, it's not random at all.
