From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: \setupsystem[random]
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:11:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41AB4A27.7000601@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41AB433F.6030701@creutzig.de>
Christopher Creutzig wrote:
> Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>> the problem is that the tex/mp randomizers are based on time and
>> therefore too fragile (too little resolution) on fast machines; so i
>> let texexec set the seed
>
>
> So even in the case where the TeX code contains \setupsystem[seed=212],
> texexec does some additional calculations? (The error I got made me
> think that the number I entered was directly used in TeX calculations.)
it does the calculation but the following setup does it again; this is why the
texexec patch is needed (although i never ran into such large number side effects)
Hans
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-26 13:16 \setupsystem[random] Christopher Creutzig
2004-11-27 20:13 ` \setupsystem[random] h h extern
2004-11-29 12:15 ` \setupsystem[random] Christopher Creutzig
2004-11-29 13:50 ` \setupsystem[random] Hans Hagen
2004-11-29 15:41 ` \setupsystem[random] Christopher Creutzig
2004-11-29 16:11 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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