Pawel Jackowski wrote:
Hi All,
a couple of months ago I was asked to implement a simple random number generator in TeX. It is not very hard for uniform distributions, but I couldn't find satisfactory way to make it reliable and expandable. The problem is that all generators I know (I'm not expirienced in that stuff) use recently generated random number to make another one. For TeX it means we need to make an assignment.
In ConTeXt I use Donald Arseneau's plain tex random.tex. It's normally ok (esp if we'd have a milliseconds counter)
OK, there is no many practical reasons for that (: I've found two however. * if \pdfuniquresname is in use, one may want to make his own named resources unique as well * when playing i.e. with page backgrounds or other TeX-based pictures, it might be nice to have a possibility to use random text size/color/position.
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