Author: Dieter Buerssner
Date: 11:58:24 11/02/03
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On November 01, 2003 at 23:23:31, Edward Seid wrote: >When programmers code their own PRNGs, do they normally provide the seed so that >every time the program is run, it will create the same series of random numbers? I cannot speak for all programmers. I am doing it. > I guess I'm asking whether or not it's important to be able to reproduce the >same random number stream. I think, it is useful. Specially when you are in a debugging situation, it is nice to be able to reconstruct the conditions. Different initial numbers for Zorbrist hashing will make it more difficult. For a fully debugged stable engine (if it exists) it might be no problem at all, to use different numbers in different runs. I mentioned, that one might want to use hash-keys for book access. But one could do it in a different manner, too. Regards, Dieter
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