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Default Re: Portable, self-contained replacements for RANDOM_STUFF() - 08-01-2004

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().


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well, i think Pagemaker has a PostScript import option, and you might look for other programs that can read PostScript as well.
  
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Default Re: Portable, self-contained replacements for RANDOM_STUFF() - 08-01-2004

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 !!!



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lol - corporate software design for you there
  
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Default Re: Portable, self-contained replacements for RANDOM_STUFF() - 08-01-2004

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.


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Default Re: Portable, self-contained replacements for RANDOM_STUFF() - 08-01-2004

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



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Default Re: Portable, self-contained replacements for RANDOM_STUFF() - 08-01-2004

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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.
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Default Re: Portable, self-contained replacements for RANDOM_STUFF() - 08-01-2004

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)?
  
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Default Re: Portable, self-contained replacements for RANDOM_STUFF() - 08-01-2004

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