Why not use GUID's (or the other name is UUID's) and convert them to a Integer from Hex. You might need to make the GUID value smaller, or part of the GUID (example the last block).
Regards, - Graeme - On 3/3/06, Antal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It's not just that, but randseed is not a threadvar. This means that > > all your threads use the same randseed variable, so if two threads > > call "random" at the same time they will still get the same "random" > > number. > > > > > > Jonas > And also generating a rand * getpid you can't really get good random > numbers. > I just made a withdrawal program on this idea, so I've got several > repetitions, and upon executing a program again and agian I've got > false random numbers, like: a*n; a*(n+1); a*(n+2). > That's not a solution anyway. > > Maybe a bit shifting or some aritmetical function can help to > obtain a more random "looking" number. > > I'm trying my next random number generation to filter it with the sin() > function, so I can get a bit more entropy :) > (I can't use atmospheric noise as some suggested) > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal > _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
