Re: CEERAN0 API

["paul cunnane" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> You may be able to achieve your goal by changing the seed value on
> successive iterations.  The seed could also be random number.
> CEERAN0 allows you to use the current GMT as the seed by specifying
> a seed of zero -- you will need to set the seed to zero on each
> iteration since CEERAN0 updates the seed variable in preparation
> for the next call.

Um.  CEERAN0 updates the seed, in order to _give_ you a pseudorandom
sequence.  If you reset the seed to zero each time, you are tinkering with
the pseudorandom algorithm, and I would expect the results to be less
"random" than using the returned seed value.

Of course, I could be wrong (I believe this has happened at least twice :),
but my experiments with CEERAN0 shows that it gives a nicely uniform
frequency distribution.

--
Paul


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