[PD] Really random random from date and time
Mathieu Bouchard
matju at artengine.ca
Tue Jan 25 04:43:10 CET 2011
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, Ed Kelly wrote:
> I'm using [urn] so I tried feeding a [random 500] -> [seed $1( into the
> [urn], but every time it's the same result. According to the
> documentation "if you don't give it a seed then each instance of random
> gets its own seed" but every time I initiate the patch the result is the
> same.
BTW there is also [# rand] which uses libc's random() (actually
random()%n), and also, merely loading gridflow will call srandom() to seed
it with the system time.
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