Random number seed?

[jon93]

I like doing random things, hoping to find something like a  Strange Attractor, or to find some new cellular automaton in Conway's Game of Life. (Unlikely!).
So I want to use rnd(1) as a pseudorandom number generator.
But I also want to be able to replay the same sequence. In some languages you can use a random number seed, which will produce the same pseudorandom sequence. But I can't find one in Justbasic.
Does it exist?


Jon

[plus]

Doesn't look like JB takes Random number generator seeds, no problem you can build your own Random Number Generator!

Check it out on Internet, Rosetta Code might have some examples maybe even in LB.

Yep! www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Random_numbers#Liberty_BASIC 

Ehh! they cheat using Rnd(0) blah! Get a real RNG that takes seeds... 

Here maybe:
www.math.utah.edu/~alfeld/Random/Random.html

[tsh73]

Basic way is
Randomize seed
Seed is in 0..1 range

[plus]

Oh yeah, now I remember doing that for codes.

[tenochtitlanuk]

If you re interested in PRNGs you might look on my website at www.diga.me.uk . Examples of 'random' functions and the ( unimportant, small) bias of LB/JB rnd(.
I often use randomize to produce repeatable sequences when testing programs..

[Rod]

Hope the OP caught that, RANDOMIZE is the command to seed the PRNG and get repeatable sequences of numbers.

[jon93]

Thank you everyone.
Randomize seed is just what I was hoping for.
I am new here and continue to be amazed at all the help and ideas offered here.
I used quick basic until dos was obsolete. I had no idea that basic still lives and thrives.

Jon