Re: Am I misunderstanding random numbers?

[Christopher Eykamp <chris@...>]

On 3/16/2010 12:49 PM, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> I think all these seeds are larger than INTMAX, so they are being
> truncated to 0x80000000 (or something similar).
>
> This is probably a bug in Lua, since srand should accept unsigned
> ints.
>
> -- Roberto
>    

You may well be right, but I should note that I first noticed the 
problem when seeding with os.time().  I don't know whether that supports 
or refutes your suggestion.

Chris