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| From: | Andreas Schwab |
| Subject: | Re: random doesn't feel very random |
| Date: | Sat, 25 Aug 2012 00:57:50 +0200 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes: > That is probably because we have only one global random state and many > packages reset it from time to time (see message-unique-id). > > Why would extra invocations of (random t) cause repetitive behavior? Depends on how random your seed is. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, address@hidden GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
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