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From: "Robert I. Eachus" <eachus@mitre.org>
Subject: Re: Array of Variant Records Question...
Date: 1999/09/22
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Robert A Duff wrote:

> I understand that you can have different representations of the same
> abstract value, but that's not the case with Random -- if I call Random
> twice in a row, I get two different answers (two different abstract
> values).  I had better, or it's broken!

    Minor comment--I don't think that Bob Duff meant to mislead anyone,
but a
random number generator that never returns the same value twice in a row
is broken, just as is one that always returns the same value.  (Think
about a generator that returns boolean values.)  In any case though, the
state of the generator must change or it is broken.  (And any good
generator should not allow "weak seeds" to be used when resetting the
generator.)
-- 

                                        Robert I. Eachus

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