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  Re: Requesting ideas/opinions for RNG seeding syntax  
From: Warp
Date: 21 May 2009 02:06:21
Message: <4a14ef5d@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> As an aside, how about allowing a string as a seed, perhaps with hex 
> digit-pairs if POV doesn't support 0-255 in strings?

  You could only specify integer literals like that. You couldn't do
something like this, which isn't even rare:

#declare S = seed(1234 + frame_number);

with a long seed.

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                                                          - Warp


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