Malte
It looks like I miscalculated the upper limit, or have goofed
something entirely.
The script I ran first was this:
on mouseUp
put the milliseconds into tSeed
set the randomSeed to tSeed
put empty into field 1
repeat 5
put random (1000) & cr after field 1
end repeat
end mouseUp
This always gives me the same sequence:
671
250
597
371
78
When I use the script below, I get a different sequence each time as
expected (so long as I wait at least 1 second between clicks.)
on mouseUp
put the seconds into tSeed
set the randomSeed to tSeed
put empty into field 1
repeat 5
put random (1000) & cr after field 1
end repeat
end mouseUp
On 13 Nov 2008, at 07:36, Malte Brill wrote:
Dave wrote:
> The maximum number it can be set to seems to be 2130706432.
Hi Dave (and all)
I am not too sure about that, though I would love to know if there
are upper limits. On my Intel mac I get:
9
4
34
30
25
21
16
12
8
3
33
on each run of the following script:
on mouseUp pMouseBtnNo
repeat with i= 2130706432 to 2130706442
set the randomseed to i
put random(34) & cr after fld 1
end repeat
end mouseUp
So it does not appear to be upper limited at 2130706432. Given the
game writers perspective to this, I really like the way the random
algorithm the way it is implemented in Revolution, as a seeded
algorithm can be used in many ways in games. It prevents the ability
to cheat with undo systems in casual games, or even lets you set up
whole galaxies without stuffing memory.
Cheers,
Malte
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