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- From: wilsojt@occ-uky.campus.mci.net (jack wilson)
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- Subject: Re: Hot to choose the seed for RNG ?
- Date: 25 Jan 1996 00:16:18 GMT
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- In article <4e51h8$l90@centre.univ-orleans.fr>,
- emmguyot@desiree.univ-orleans.fr says...
- >
- >How to choose the seed to initialize RNG ?
- >Should the seed have special properties (prime number, ...) ?
- >
- >E.G.
- >
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- No...no special seed..just need a random number generator that is as
- close to being truly random..using it for audit program to pull 2000
- items to audit and it must be as random as possible not pseudo-random
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