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From: Tom Melly
Date: 7 Feb 2001 10:47:27
Message: <3a816e0f$1@news.povray.org>
Does the seed for random numbers make any difference (apart from generating
a diff. sequence)? Are big numbers better than small numbers? Are fractional
numbers better than integers?

(by "better" I suppose I mean "a longer, more random, sequence")

Also, is the random number sequence a fixed sequence, with the seed just
controlling the point at which you join the sequence. If it is a fixed
sequence, how long is it?


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