On 3/19/07, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> > The Lua Wiki Math Library Tutorial page[1] says:
> > "But beware! The first random number you get is not really 'randomized'
> > (at least in Windows 2K and OS X)."
>
> That's the way Pseudorandom number generators usually work. See
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-random_number_generator
>
> To fix that, start your program with
> math.randomseed(os.time())
> for instance.
> --lhf
I think the issue he's seeing is that even w/ diff seeds, the first
val is still 66.