Re: [Help-smalltalk] Limits of Random changed due the mersenne twister

[Holger Hans Peter Freyther]

On 07/19/2011 03:48 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> Yes, it should be enough to add a handler for the failure of
> #nextLimit:, and combine a few random integers together before scaling
> the result down to the limit value.
> 
> Probably the numbers you were getting were not random at all, so it's
> good that it now fails. :)

One more Mersenne Twister question. So if someone knows a row of 624 random
numbers, he knows the internal state of the twister... does it make sense to
reseed more often?

not a crypto expert
        holger