RE: ceerano and the seed

Maybe I misunderstood the doc.  I was under the impression that each call
returned a new value for the seed parm.  That's what I see in debug.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leif Svalgaard [mailto:leif@leif.org]
> Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 4:53 PM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: ceerano and the seed
>
>
> From: Joel Fritz <JFritz@sharperimage.com>
> > We've been playing with CEERANO to try to construct a list
> of 13 digit
> > unique numbers in "random" order.  It looks like that after
> 20,000 or so,
> > diminishing returns sets in in a big way.
> >
> > Looks like using the seed value returned by the function is
> not a good
> idea.
>
> Indeed, most random number generators are designed to produce normally
> distributed values from a seed. Feeding the seed back in
> defeats the design.
> Knuth advocates to throw away the first several thousand
> values after each
> seeding.
>
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