[PD] Random

[Fede Camara Halac]

Hello,

I find it useful to wrap random in an abstraction, so that I use $2 as an instance id, to both receive a "seed" and to add the abstraction id to the seed.

But, it would be really useful to have a unique instance id already generated in the [random] object, and a global symbol to bind all [random]s to send a seed and increment it by each unique id. 

what do you think? is this possible?

I tested briefly and thie wrapping method really gives different random streams provided there is a different seed when opening the patch

cheers,

fede

> On May 31, 2018, at 10:00 PM, Martin Peach <chakekatzil at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 3:09 PM, hans w. koch <hansw.koch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> but couldn´t that pi limitation worked around by a loadbang -delay combo to read a date, once the system has established one?
>> would need mention in the helpfile though.
>> 
> The pi might not be connected to any network, in which case it will always start at Jan 1, 2000.
> /dev/random may not be usable right at startup as it needs time to accumulate entropy, .dev/urandom is guaranteed to give some sort of random. Reading a few bytes from /dev/urandom into a table then combining them into a float or long int seems like a better idea.
> There's an equivalent method in the WIndows API (SystemPrng), but it would have to be coded into an external since it's not a file like in linux.
> 
> Martin
> 
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