[fpc-pascal] RE: Random(), Randomize, and Linux permissions

Jonas Maebe jonas at zeus.ugent.be
Thu Sep 30 09:31:59 CEST 2004


On 30 sep 2004, at 05:29, Alan Mead wrote:

> Thanks for this link.  I found a Pascal implementation of MT
> somewhere .. not this one I think.  Is it your code?  Do you know the
> difference between the Real1() and Real2() etc. methods?

The 1.9.x FPC rtl already uses the Mersenne Twister. However, that 
doesn't change the need of having to get an initial random seed from 
somewhere.


Jonas





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