From: Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: Curiosity about math.random in LuaTeX
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2021 18:25:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <da4c2710-24c5-7ee3-49ac-48f078292913@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87E13377-AB93-48C9-B19E-970F2C32FF28@ziggo.nl>
On 8/23/2021 5:24 PM, Hans van der Meer via ntg-context wrote:
> I guess the underlying library calls are from Lua5.4? Then it is perhaps
> useful to know that between 5.3 and 5.4 there is mentioned a new
> implementation for math.random. Perhaps it changes the sequence of
> random values generated? Someone who knows?
I suppose that usage is within a certain timeframe and therefore version
of lua(meta)tex so then setting the seed should work ok.
Hans
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2021-08-23 14:46 ` Thierry Horsin via ntg-context
2021-08-23 15:06 ` Henri Menke via ntg-context
2021-08-23 15:13 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2021-08-23 15:24 ` Hans van der Meer via ntg-context
2021-08-23 15:49 ` Henri Menke via ntg-context
2021-08-23 16:25 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context [this message]
2021-08-23 18:09 ` Thierry Horsin via ntg-context
2009-10-23 8:55 Otared Kavian
2009-10-23 19:44 ` Otared KAVIAN
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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