Re: Random seed.
Re: Random seed.
- Subject: Re: Random seed.
- From: Daniel Robinson <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 18:34:07 -0400
Here you go.
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Set TheSeed to 5 -- or whatever
random number TheSeed -- this will give you a whole number from zero to
TheSeed
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Here's a random number test script I wrote a couple months ago when we had a
discussion on this list.
you'll see that the distribution is correct
--Dan
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set TheList to {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}
set N to the count of items in TheList
repeat 100000 times
random number N - 1 -- (I get it back on the next line)
set ThisNumber to the result + 1 -- (Don't want a zero)
set item ThisNumber of TheList to (item ThisNumber of TheList) + 1
end repeat
TheList
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"Fox, Christopher B" wrote:
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What is the default seed for the Random number command in the Standard
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Additions OSAX? Just how "random" are the numbers generated with this
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routine?
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Christopher Fox
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