getRandom returning different results on mac and pc

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Port:

--- Quote from: Daenth on May 19, 2012, 12:54:02 PM ---That's exactly what I pointed out up there:

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--- Quote from: Port on May 19, 2012, 11:04:40 AM ---what

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He is talking about utilizing setRandomSeed and then calling getRandom to return the same sequence of random numbers based on the seed, however, as I already explained, other scripts and even the engine itself are using the function as well, thus causing it to appear to "skip ahead" in the sequence (very basic explanation).

Daenth:

--- Quote from: Port on May 19, 2012, 01:10:50 PM ---He is talking about utilizing setRandomSeed and then calling getRandom to return the same sequence of random numbers based on the seed, however, as I already explained, other scripts and even the engine itself are using the function as well, thus causing it to appear to "skip ahead" in the sequence (very basic explanation).

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I realize that and Ipquarx pointed out what was wrong. zmaster was saying that the getRandom function didn't have an argument for a seed and that's what I pointed it. I had no idea there was a setRandomSeed.

Port:

--- Quote from: zmaster on May 19, 2012, 10:38:24 AM ---What do you mean by different results?

btw:
double = getRandom(min,max);

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On another note, it doesn't return a double-precision float. It always returns a string, syntaxically fixed to a integer or float with precision 6.

Ipquarx:
The problem here is that inside a function, there is say, the following code:

--- Code: ---function blah()
{

setRandomSeed(1231410857510857584752610452674907490747475251113186867577116104117842712211751241120756767676774877366);

for(%a = 0; %a < 50; %a++)
{
echo(getRandom(0, 100));
}
}

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Try that on mac and pc, it will return different results.
Why?
How can I fix that?

Port:
You can't fix that.

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