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  1. Received: from owl.CS.Arizona.EDU by cheltenham.CS.Arizona.EDU; Fri, 17 Sep 1993 09:01:50 MST
  2. Received: by owl.cs.arizona.edu; Fri, 17 Sep 1993 09:01:49 MST
  3. Via: uk.ac.edinburgh.festival; Fri, 17 Sep 1993 15:58:59 +0100
  4. Date: 17 Sep 93 15:58:50 BST
  5. From: R J Hare <rjhare@festival.ed.ac.uk>
  6. Subject: Random number seeds
  7. To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
  8. Reply-To: r.j.hare@edinburgh.ac.uk
  9. Organisation: Edinburgh University Computing Service
  10. Message-Id: <9309171558.aa27306@uk.ac.ed.festival>
  11. Status: R
  12. Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
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  15. Er, what's the 'best' (whatever that means) way to seed &random with a start
  16. value? I have usually used the numbers from the date-time string, but
  17. sometimes note that when doing this I tend to get several random choices
  18. from the same part of a large list. 
  19.  
  20. thanks
  21.  
  22. Roger Hare.
  23.