At 18:59 -0700 03/15/2002, Jeff Gomes wrote:
>Sweet!
Grazi.
>It seems to me a while back there was a thread on one of the lists
>about random number algorithms changing (fortunately rarely) between
>certain versions of...was it Director or the OS? I can't remember.
I don't know that this is a great concern, but if it is it's probably
on the OS level.
I have a *very* strong suspicion that the randomSeed in Lingo is
simply the Lingo implementation of the C/C++ function srand. I mean
it would be crazy to write your own random seed algorithm when you've
already got one.
What I do not know is if the srand function itself is something that
all OSen produce with consistency (I doubt it), whether it is some
basic call in the machine (I doubt that too) or whether it's a basic
library function you get from C (likely). Since it's probably a basic
library function, the fact that it appears to work more or less the
same more or less anywhere would imply it's one of those standard
things that C and C++ programmers expect never to change, like the
stuff in stdio.h.
That's kind of a long way around saying I'm not really ready to worry
about it. :D
At 09:08 +0100 03/18/2002, Chris Aernoudt wrote:
>You just saved me a bunch of work
>I'm off to get my lazy chair... :)
Hey, that's what the forum's all about. (OK, not really, but I shure
do enjoy the cipher stuff.)
Glad it was of use!
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