common epic failure of math code that drives me bloody batty bonkers

Raoul Duke

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Nov 26, 2021, 3:36:07 PM11/26/21

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random() but no way to explicitly seed.

Mike Austin

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Nov 27, 2021, 4:23:09 PM11/27/21

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So, not random... what language is that? That reminds me to add it in Kopi.

Raoul Duke

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Nov 27, 2021, 5:13:34 PM11/27/21

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lots of them? javascript? tinkercad code blocks? et. al.

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Mike Austin

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Nov 27, 2021, 6:56:28 PM11/27/21

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Oh, I never noticed in JS since I don't use Math.random() much. I notice it is seeded internally, meaning that multiple runs don't produce the same result. If it was truly not seeded, it would always have the same result. What do you need to seed specifically?

Mike Austin

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Nov 27, 2021, 6:58:32 PM11/27/21

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Oh, "The implementation selects the initial seed to the random number generation algorithm; it cannot be chosen or reset by the user."

It would be handy when testing games using the same initial seed for consistent runs while debugging.

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