From: Stephen Leake <Stephen.A.Leake@nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: Pseudo Random coding problem
Date: 08 Jan 2003 15:56:14 -0500
Date: 2003-01-08T21:08:48+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uwulfl5sh.fsf@nasa.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3e1b633f.3280604@news.demon.co.uk
brianc@billybob.demon.co.uk (Brian A Crawford) writes:
> I am trying to start a small programming project that will output
> pseudo-random numbers.
> Random_50.Reset (Gen => G); -- starts G from time of day clock
This makes your tests non-repeatable, which is why you sometimes see
20 and sometimes don't. You probably want to do
Random_50.Resest (Gen => G, Initiator => 0);
to get repeatable results.
In your final application, you may want to start from the time of day,
but probably not.
--
-- Stephe
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2003-01-07 23:47 Pseudo Random coding problem Brian A Crawford
2003-01-08 1:55 ` tmoran
2003-01-08 10:57 ` Brian A Crawford
2003-01-08 13:45 ` David C. Hoos
2003-01-08 4:08 ` Andy Starritt
2003-01-08 20:56 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
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2003-01-08 13:45 David C. Hoos
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