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From: "Bobby D. Bryant" <bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu>
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Subject: Re: Random numbers in tasks
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 21:42:34 -0600
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On Sat, 31 May 2003 21:09:30 -0500, David C. Hoos wrote:

> "Papastefanos Serafeim" <serafeim@otenet.gr> wrote in message
> news:bbb8o5$2711$1@ulysses.noc.ntua.gr...

>> I am trying to model a simulation in Ada95 with gnat. There are some
>> tasks of the same type that use random numbers. Is there a way to make
>> every task get its own sequence of random numbers ?
>>
> Yes.  The task body should declare the generator object. Each instance
> of the task type, therefore will have its own generator object.

And initialize them with different seeds, or they'll all spew the same
stream of numbers.

-- 
Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas