Dear all, For my class of about 30 students armed with JAndroid 901, I had planned to use ?. to generate a random matrix which should be same for everybody. To start with, I asked everybody to try
?. 100 Some got 46, others got 93. No other values. Next, someone noticed that if they repeatedly type ? 100 then many are getting the SAME sequence of "random" numbers. Hence my question: 1) Is there a way to produce predictable "random numbers" across different machines (all running Jandroid 901_*, where the *'s may differ)? 2) Is there some way to get the initial seed from, say, the system time in millisecond (or something like that)? Thanks a lot. Arnab. PS: BTW, my students are loving J! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
