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Re: random is not random [never mind]


From: Matt Wette
Subject: Re: random is not random [never mind]
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 13:34:57 -0800

NEVER MIND

> On Feb 13, 2016, at 1:30 PM, Matt Wette <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Every time I execute
>       $ guile -c '(simple-format #t "~S\n" (random 100))’
> I get the same result.
> 
> Is this a bug?
> 
> It happens in guile-2.0.11 and guile-2.1.2.
> 
> Matt

I found this in the manual:

Note that the initial value of *random-state* is the same every time Guile 
starts up. Therefore, if you don’t pass a state parameter to the above 
procedures, and you don’t set *random-state* to (seed->random-state your-seed), 
where your-seed is something that isn’t the same every time, you’ll get the 
same sequence of “random” numbers on every run. 

(set! *random-state* (random-state-from-platform))






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