From: Otared KAVIAN <otared@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Curiosity about math.random in LuaTeX
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:44:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3cb063a60910231244r441b3e58ud3b013aa4b5f81c4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E1D310B-06AE-4B36-B2FF-E60A412A3992@gmail.com>
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Hi all,
This is a curiosity question about the function math.random coming from Lua
and used in mkiv:
if I typeset the following test file in mkiv, no matter when nor how many
times, the sequence of numbers which are output are the same…
%%% begin test-random.tex
\starttext
\dorecurse{25}{%
\ctxlua{tex.print(math.random(110,150))}
\qquad
\ctxlua{tex.print(math.random(math.random(110,120),math.random(140,150)))}
\par}
\stoptext
%%% end test-random.tex
Indeed I guess that this is due to the random seed used by LuaTeX: is it
possible to force a new random seed upon each typesetting?
Thanks for your attention: OK
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-23 8:55 Otared Kavian
2009-10-23 19:44 ` Otared KAVIAN [this message]
2009-10-25 8:26 ` Taco Hoekwater
2009-10-25 9:50 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2009-10-25 20:35 ` Otared Kavian
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