THat should work (up)...
That's why you should learn Lisp which automatically changes its seed after every random number so that it will output a true random number
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| Author: | jonos [ Wed Mar 31, 2004 1:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | random numbers |
are the random numbers in turing even partly random, or maybe even different numbers every time. because im trying to get either 1 or 2 and its always coming as one. is there a way to easily seed it like in c++ so that i could actually get a random number or at least a different number every time. or would i have to create my own... |
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| Author: | Dan [ Wed Mar 31, 2004 1:42 pm ] |
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well the turth is nothing is random. in most languges it is an equation that uses the curent time as the seed to generate the random number. in turing 3.x u had to put randomize b4 you used random comands to get better random numbers but i bivle in 4.x it adomaitclky calls it. if u are having porblems u can uses randseed and randnext to chage the seed number that is used to make the random numbers. if u realy whont to u can make your own code to find random numbers, i bivle i posted an example of how to make your own along time ago but i may be hard to find b/c i think it was in the help section. |
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| Author: | sport [ Wed Mar 31, 2004 3:30 pm ] | ||
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| Author: | guruguru [ Wed Mar 31, 2004 4:51 pm ] |
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THat should work (up)... That's why you should learn Lisp which automatically changes its seed after every random number so that it will output a true random number !!! |
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| Author: | Thuged_Out_G [ Wed Mar 31, 2004 5:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: random numbers |
jonos wrote: because im trying to get either 1 or 2 and its always coming as one. is there a way to easily seed it like in c++ so that i could actually get a random number or at least a different number every time
so you want a number between 1-2 and you want it to be different each time right? thats not really random then, you have 2 numbers and you want the number to be diff each time, sounds pretty predicable to me |
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| Author: | jonos [ Wed Mar 31, 2004 5:21 pm ] |
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no i never said that, its just that for every single instance it is at 1, and i know how to use randint, thats what was not working. so i will just try to seed it. tahnks dan |
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| Author: | Dan [ Wed Mar 31, 2004 8:40 pm ] |
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u could just be very very very lucky or unlucky denpands on how u see it, lol. |
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