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The equivalent to QuadRL is explained there, along with much more. Cheers, Tom Tom Arneson http://tomarneson.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dly Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2006 06:57 To: General forum Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] random thoughts On 2-Jul-06, at 11:29 AM, John Randall wrote: > Functions like ? are not pure functions: they depend on some state How do you display and set the J equivalent of []RL Random Link? These types of variables were called Shared Variables--does J have an equivalent? 6?100 46 99 23 62 42 44 6?100 60 71 92 33 58 43 ?1000 713 ?1000 318 In these cases the RL changes with each call and the changes to the seed number are to simulate random varition tho of course since there is n algorithm behind it it is not truely random I can't remember what I entered but I think I was invoking a phrase from one of the exercises that was meant to be sorting a list in random order but successive executions did not reset the seed--I kept getting the list in the same order. What is happening here? ?i.6 0.00766673 0 0 1 2 1 ?i.6 0.872465 0 0 2 1 3 i.6 0 1 2 3 4 5 ?i.6 0.358077 0 1 2 0 2 Donna [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
