11-09-2003, 01:26 PM
adamantine,Nov 4 2003, 04:23 PM Wrote:sometimes they go off several times in a row (caused by randomization being partly based on position).Nope, it is caused by poor random number generation code. The "standard" code is to divide your big range random number into a small range, but this causes "2-point correlation", i.e. successive numbers strongly tend to be the same. About 99% of programmers have never heard of these basics, which are well discussed in their classic literature -- i.e. those boobs cannot read.