Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:24:22 10/31/03
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On October 30, 2003 at 17:24:02, Randall Shane wrote: >On October 30, 2003 at 10:59:59, Robert Hyatt wrote: ><snippage> >> You only need a >>total of 768 RNG's. > >Here's what is probably a bad idea, but... > >If one only needs a total of 768 random numbers, why have a random number >generator in the program at all? Generate them once. Use them as an >appropriately defined array of constants in the program. You can do that. In fact, you probably should do that for simplicity. However, I need random numbers for other reasons. IE I have some randomness built into my opening move book selection code. But doing it for the Zobrist numbers, and avoiding random generation there would make perfect sense. You could spend some time tweaking the numbers also, if you find a few that are too close in hamming distance. > >I can see many programs sharing the same set of numbers, for instance. >Could help toward being able to share both book and learning files (if hash >signatures are used to store the data) between different programs. I agree...
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