I'll point out that there is there is a large literature on generating
pseudo random numbers for parallel processes, and it is not as easy as
one (at least me) would intuitively think. By a contra-positive like
thinking one might guess that it will not be easy to pick seeds in a way
that will p
> On 5 Nov 2017, at 15:17 , Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>
> On 04/11/2017 10:20 PM, Daniel Nordlund wrote:
>> Tirthankar,
>> "random number generators" do not produce random numbers. Any given
>> generator produces a fixed sequence of numbers that appear to meet
>> various tests of randomness. By pi
Duncan, Daniel,
Thanks and indeed we intend to take the advice that Radford and Lukas have
provided in this thread.
I do want to re-iterate that the generating system itself cannot have any
conception of the use of form IDs as seeds for a PRNG *and* the system
itself only generates a sequence of
On 04/11/2017 10:20 PM, Daniel Nordlund wrote:
Tirthankar,
"random number generators" do not produce random numbers. Any given
generator produces a fixed sequence of numbers that appear to meet
various tests of randomness. By picking a seed you enter that sequence
in a particular place and sub
Tirthankar,
"random number generators" do not produce random numbers. Any given
generator produces a fixed sequence of numbers that appear to meet
various tests of randomness. By picking a seed you enter that sequence
in a particular place and subsequent numbers in the sequence appear to
be
