Re: Random Seed question

[glen e. p. ropella]

At 10:00 AM 1/29/00 -0500, you wrote:

> If I recall correctly (ted could tell us for sure),
> Drone uses what might be viewed as a more compressed
> way of "storing" a stream of RNG seeds:  it starts
> with a number created from the clock and task number,
> and uses that as a seed for one kind of RNG, which
> then creates a sequence of numbers to use as seeds
> for some other kind of RNG.   It is important, of course,
> to use different kinds of RNGs for the seed generator
> vs what is used in your simulation.
>
> Thus its "more compressed" in that you just have to record
> that first seed generated from the clock and process number
> (and the seed generator algorithm, of course!).

Sven uses this technique in Swarm's Random library, as well.
It's called 'runup'.

glen

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