[fpc-pascal] Re: random numbers

[Vincent Snijders]

Antal wrote:
> As I noticed, when initialized the randseed with the same value, the 
> whole rand values in the chain will be totally identical, which I'm 
> afraid is rather far from what we might expect from a "real" random 
> number generator!

Indeed, it isn't a real random number generator and in fact this is a 
good thing, otherwise you wouldn't be able to reproduce any behaviour 
with a Pseudo RNG. The fact it is Pseudo is advantageous in some cases.

Vincent