Re: Random seed.
Re: Random seed.
- Subject: Re: Random seed.
- From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 16:32:06 -0300
At 10:37 AM -0400 21/06/01, Fox, Christopher B wrote:
What is the default seed for the Random number command in the Standard
Additions OSAX? Just how "random" are the numbers generated with this
routine?
They are pretty "random". There was a thread about this a couple of
months ago and it flogged that topic to death. I ran tests on randoms
from a specified range and after a few million random numbers having
been generated within that range, the distribution statistics were in
line with what theory predicts. So the answer is, they appear to be
random. It would take longer runs to determine if there's any problem
with the "randomness". I would not hesitate to use AppleScript's
random numbers for most purposes.
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