Implementing 'randomness' in my programs has been a simple challenge for me: I use the timestamp or to be specific, the count of milliseconds elapsed since EPOCH, which in JavaScript is as simple as new Date().getTime(). I know it's probably not the best methods out there and I didn't even bother to read more about it. However, with my 'cheap' method to generate random numbers, there's always a seed: the time at that exact moment.
I liked all of the three methods explained in this post but have a question: like we mentioned that the previous random number forms a seed to generate the next one, I'm wondering (I couldn't find it in the post) for what the seed would be for the first random number in the sequence?
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Implementing 'randomness' in my programs has been a simple challenge for me: I use the timestamp or to be specific, the count of milliseconds elapsed since EPOCH, which in JavaScript is as simple as
new Date().getTime(). I know it's probably not the best methods out there and I didn't even bother to read more about it. However, with my 'cheap' method to generate random numbers, there's always a seed: the time at that exact moment.I liked all of the three methods explained in this post but have a question: like we mentioned that the previous random number forms a seed to generate the next one, I'm wondering (I couldn't find it in the post) for what the seed would be for the first random number in the sequence?