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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Consistent random number generation
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 17:43:53 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.2.02.1604051740010.20409@nqv-znpobbx> (raw)

Hi,

Is it possible to generate consistent random numbers across multiple 
operating systems. For example, consider the following file:

math.randomseed(1000)
print(math.random())
print(math.random())
print(math.random())

If I process this using texlua, the output on linux and MacOS is 
different. Is it possible to get consistent output?

Rationate: I use randomization to randomize certain paths in metapost. Not 
all randomly generated paths look okay, so I play around with the seed 
until I get a good path. But I have to repeat this process everytime I 
update my distribution and if I compile on different machines.

Thanks,
Aditya
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             reply	other threads:[~2016-04-05 21:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-05 21:43 Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2016-04-06  1:01 ` Alan BRASLAU
2016-04-06 11:24   ` Norbert Melzer

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