Re: Why is the first random number after randomseed() not random?

["Thomas Harning Jr." <harningt@...>]

On 3/19/07, Thomas Harning Jr. <harningt@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/19/07, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> > > The Lua Wiki Math Library Tutorial page[1] says:
> > > "But beware! The first random number you get is not really 'randomized'
> > > (at least in Windows 2K and OS X)."
> >
> > That's the way Pseudorandom number generators usually work. See
> >         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-random_number_generator
> >
> > To fix that, start your program with
> >         math.randomseed(os.time())
> > for instance.
> > --lhf
> I think the issue he's seeing is that even w/ diff seeds, the first
> val is still 66.

I just tested the app myself and could not reproduce the strange '66'
as the first value.

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Thomas Harning Jr.