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From: amres@uvaee.ee.virginia.EDU (Ali Minai)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: random numbers in Franzlisp
Message-ID: <179@uvaee.ee.virginia.EDU>
Date: Fri, 7-Aug-87 15:44:17 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  7 15:44:17 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Aug-87 10:48:45 EDT
Organization: EE Dept, U of Virginia, Charlottesville
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Keywords: in search of randomness




I have been using Franzlisp to develop a program that involves genetic
algorithms. Much to my dismay, I have found that the (random) function
is far from random, and generates the identical list of numbers every
time I run the program. Is there some way I can give it a "seed", or
perhaps get around the problem in some other way? I could conceivably
use something like the (time) function, but surely, there must be a
better way. Thanks in advance.

                                Ali Minai,
                                EE, University of Virginia,

                                amres@uvaee.ee.virginia.edu