> > you still have control on the seed... just seed it no because you need to add an extra outlet to [random] and prints out the seed value.
> or even seed it with the system time on creation? if one adds now this behaviour one need to put a flag for backward compatibility. > what if [seed( without argument would take the current system time? this could be an idea but one need the second outlet. ciao -Marco Matteo Markidis 2018-05-31 17:50 GMT+02:00 Alexandre Torres Porres <por...@gmail.com>: > that's what I was suggesting ;) > > 2018-05-31 9:15 GMT-03:00 Christof Ressi <christof.re...@gmx.at>: > >> just an idea: what if [seed( without argument would take the current >> system time? >> >> or even seed it with the system time on creation? >> >> > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 31. Mai 2018 um 13:36 Uhr >> > Von: "Peter P." <peterpar...@fastmail.com> >> > An: pd-list <pd-list@lists.iem.at> >> > Betreff: Re: [PD] Random >> > >> > * Marco Matteo Markidis <mm.marki...@gmail.com> [2018-05-30 19:29]: >> > > usually in random number generators one wants to have control on the >> seed >> > > because this allows to have the same numeric streams every time one >> wants. >> > >> > I thought about this and conclude that the help patch should mention the >> > fact that the sequence is always the same even when the object is not >> > explicitely seeded with the [seed ...< message. >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list >> > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/li >> stinfo/pd-list >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/li >> stinfo/pd-list >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/ > listinfo/pd-list > >
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