Re: Random.int on non unix platform

From: Damien Doligez (Damien.Doligez@inria.fr)
Date: Wed May 26 1999 - 14:07:19 MET DST


Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 14:07:19 +0200
From: Damien Doligez <Damien.Doligez@inria.fr>
Message-Id: <199905261207.OAA17846@tobago.inria.fr>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: Random.int on non unix platform

>From: Martin Quinson <mquinson@zeppelin-cb.de>

>How can I write this without the unix library ?
>
>Random.init (int_of_float (Unix.time ()));;

You can do:

    Random.init (int_of_float (Sys.time ()));;

or you can input a random seed from the user and give it as argument
to Random.init.

-- Damien



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