Re: Random Number Generation

[musjndx@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Jonathan N. Deitch)]

<KCR103@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:

>I am working on Dawn of Time for the GS and want to know the best (fastest) way
>to generate random numbers.  I was actually thinking of generating a table of
>32000 random numbers for the program to use over and over.  Only the starting
>point would need to be randomized then and a counter incremented for each numbe
>r (random) required by the program.  Is there significant enough overhead in
>generating random numbers that such a random number table would be warranted or
>worthwhile.

Although its not applicable in this situation, I've found a simple way to
generate random numbers on an older // (I don't know if it works on a GS).

Simply turn on a 5.25 drive, read one byte, and turn it off.  There's no way
to predict what you'll get.  Even with a disk in the drive.

- Jonathan

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