Re: Random Seed question

[glen e. p. ropella]

At 07:50 PM 1/28/00 -0800, you wrote:
> Feel free to correct me if I am wrong, but I believe a good RNG should not
> need a special seed.  That is one of the requirements.  I tend to choose
> phone numbers, permutations of my social security number,  or other
> interesting number patterns.  I then enter about 40 of these into a text
> file and go through them in order when I'm running multiple experiments with
> my model.

These are good ideas.  Or, if you're like me and you're too lazy
to think up your own seeds, you can use:
   http://www.random.org/
Since we now have the Java layer, it should be relatively easy to
use the jdk client on their site to grab random numbers....as long
as you're on-line.  If you're off-line, you can always just generate
a bunch of them and put them in a file, like Doug suggested.

glen

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