From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-06-25T18:41:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Is this deterministic or not?

2008/6/2 Dave Bass <davebass@musician.org>:
> Tim Hunter wrote:
>> P.S. I'm sure there's a lot of good things to be said about PRNGs and
>> stuff but I'll let somebody else type it in.
>
> I'll just add that Ruby's rand is deterministic, but it uses a very good
> PRNG algorithm (Mersenne twister). Unless you really need true
> randomness, it's good enough to use out-of-the-box.

Plus, opposed to other libs and languages, there is a random element in seeding:

http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Kernel.html#M001086

Kind regards

robert


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