[PD] Random

[Marco Matteo Markidis]

>
> you still have control on the seed... just seed it

no because you need to add an extra outlet to [random] and prints out the
seed value.

> or even seed it with the system time on creation?

if one adds now this behaviour one need to put a flag for backward
compatibility.

> what if [seed( without argument would take the current system time?

this could be an idea but one need the second outlet.

ciao
-Marco Matteo Markidis


2018-05-31 17:50 GMT+02:00 Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>:

> that's what I was suggesting ;)
>
> 2018-05-31 9:15 GMT-03:00 Christof Ressi <christof.ressi at gmx.at>:
>
>> just an idea: what if [seed( without argument would take the current
>> system time?
>>
>> or even seed it with the system time on creation?
>>
>> > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 31. Mai 2018 um 13:36 Uhr
>> > Von: "Peter P." <peterparker at fastmail.com>
>> > An: pd-list <pd-list at lists.iem.at>
>> > Betreff: Re: [PD] Random
>> >
>> > * Marco Matteo Markidis <mm.markidis at gmail.com> [2018-05-30 19:29]:
>> > > usually in random number generators one wants to have control on the
>> seed
>> > > because this allows to have the same numeric streams every time one
>> wants.
>> >
>> > I thought about this and conclude that the help patch should mention the
>> > fact that the sequence is always the same even when the object is not
>> > explicitely seeded with the [seed ...< message.
>> >
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