Re: Getting randomic integers

["Alex Davies" <alex.mania@...>]

Majic wrote:
> But if you're executing the script, in it's entirely, more than once a
> second you're randomseed()'ing with the same time in that second and
> you'll get the same random numbers...

Well if you're not able to have a "RunOnce"or "Init" function, then add this 
to your script:

if not Seeded then
 math.randomseed(os.time())
 Seeded = true
end

Unless you're also running each script in its own little sandbox without 
access to globals, in which case perhaps that is a problem..

You should know though that whilst each sequence of random() numbers are 
supposed to be random, no guarantee is given that two sequences from seeds 
that are very similar (ie differ by 1) won't share patterns.  A fair few 
generators fail there (Delphi's math library comes to mind) - sometimes 
re-randomseeding with a random number produced by the sequence a few times 
can separate the seeds out a bit.  Whether or not your C compiler suffers 
this, who knows.  ie:

math.randomseed(os.time())
for i = 1,4 do
 math.randomseed(math.random(2^31))
end

It's every bit a hack as it looks too.

- Alex