[PD] random seed

[Tim Blechmann]

> > To avoid this behaviour, it's best to NOT give a seed at all.  Or to
> > provide a seed that is always different (like the operating system's
> > clock time).
are you sure about this??? 
the initial seed is given by this function:

static int makeseed(void)
{
    static unsigned int random_nextseed = 1489853723;
    random_nextseed = random_nextseed * 435898247 + 938284287;
    return (random_nextseed & 0x7fffffff);
}

and this seems to be pretty deterministic ... doesn't it?

> Like I said, I remember it worked different on windoze, so I wonder if
> it has anything to do with PD's access to the random number pool in 
> Linux. I guess that's one for Miller or Guenter to puzzel over ;-)

although every random object you will create has a different seed, if
you load a patch at startup without giving seeds, the random objects
will return the same results every time the patch is started ... on
windows as on linux ...

cheers...

 Tim                          mailto:TimBlechmann at gmx.de
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