Kenneth <kdw### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
> Oh...one other TINY little question, mostly out of curiosity: What is the
> "length" of the integer value that can be placed into SEED?  That is, how
> many digits long?  Did I overlook that in the docs somewhere? From Warp's
> discussion, I *suspect* it is 32, but that's a guess. Curious minds want to
> know!  ; - )

  A 32-bit number, which can represent 2^32 different values, contains
32 *binary* digits (ie. 0 or 1).
  In decimal the maximum value of a 32-bit number is 4294967295 (10 digits).

  If you give seed() a larger number it will probably just get truncated
(IOW the number modulo 4294967296 will be used).

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                                                          - Warp

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