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|    Herbert Kleebauer to R.Wieser    |
|    Re: %random% is not random?    |
|    22 Oct 23 09:52:52    |
      From: klee@unibwm.de              On 22.10.2023 07:31, R.Wieser wrote:              >> But a cmd startet a few seconds later should start with a completely       >> different value.       >       > Not /completely/ different (your initial problem), but different enough to       > create a different sequence.              They use the seed not as a seed but as the first       random number and that I would call a bug. So       always discard the first %random% value you get.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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