From: Martin Bryce Date: 2008-08-16T09:16:20+09:00 Subject: Re: Not So Random (#173) I know that a Mersenne Twister has a large internal state, so it takes time to "get started" and produce good quality random numbers from a non-random initial state. If it gets frequently reseeded, either the seeding procedure refreshes all the state and runs it for a bit (i.e. takes a lot of time) or the quality will greatly degrade, I guess. Is this a problem? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.