I'd like it to be predictable given the seed, right now it's
predictable given the seed and the compiler. Is this a bug,
shouldn't the random number process be completely defined in the
language?
I'm not trying to misuse it like the PHP crowd :) It's for a
piece of scientific software: I'm hoping people will test the
significance of their results with a stochastic process, and for
reproducibility we need to allow other people to recreate their
analysis exactly (hence the seed). For my purposes I don't need
truly random, I just need it not to repeat too quickly.
Thanks
Andrew
On Friday, 30 May 2014 at 14:09:20 UTC, Wanderer wrote:
I must note if the sequence is predictable, it's not random
anymore, it's pseudo-random at most.
Also, if anyone interested, PHP had such way to generate
predictable sequences in the past, but after it was horribly
misused by various people for crypto keys/password generation
purposes, they have forbidden it completely, so only
non-predictable sequences in PHP from now on. Maybe, just
maybe, it makes sense not to stand on the same rack twice.
