
21 Apr
2010
21 Apr
'10
11:08 p.m.
Dear peterbarnabus,
In many cases it is sufficient to use the time
That's not enough for me.
If you are running your program many times and need a new seed each time, then another strategy could be to save the state of your random generator when you have finished and use that state to initialise your program for the next run.
This might do. I need to check.
If this is no good, you need hardware random number generators, of which there are many. You could also have a look at random.org.
Interesting website but that's not available as a piece of software usable directly on every machine. The application I am writing currently needs to be a standalone program runnable on every Windows. Cheers, --Hossein