Portable, self-contained replacements for RANDOM_STUFF()

[botmeister]

Adobe is NOT standard post script, it's a proprietory format which sucks. To view standard post script documents, get these apps from here
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.htm

I just tested the tiny random algo and it seems to work very well. It's supposed to generate a uniform distribution and is at least as good as rand().

well, i think Pagemaker has a PostScript import option, and you might look for other programs that can read PostScript as well.

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

k, I'm getting GhostView and GS 8.11 right now. WTF, they weight LESS than the zipped Acrobat Reader and they do so much more !!!

lol - corporate software design for you there

[botmeister]

btw, I liked this book so much I downloaded the whole thing

http://www.ma.utexas.edu/documentation/nr/bookc/

It is not just about random number generation and has a lot of really usefull programming info.

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

yes, I was scared off just when I saw that word: "Knuth"

[Austin]

Originally Posted by botmeister

btw, I liked this book so much I downloaded the whole thing

http://www.ma.utexas.edu/documentation/nr/bookc/

It is not just about random number generation and has a lot of really usefull programming info.

utexas.edu ??

Of course!
The best comes from Austin!

[Bert]

This may sound stupid, but should I set the seed more than once to ensure a more random result, or is setting it once enough (as in the numbers are random enough)?

[Killaruna]

You set the seed once before using the rand() function for the first time. Note that the same seed always produces the same line of "random" numbers.

[Bert]

Alright thanks, I've been doing it the right way then