Re: mt_rand() - the same forever?

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Eric Butera <eric.butera@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Janek <j-sz@o2.pl> wrote: >> I wonder whether I can rely on the stability of mt_srand() and >> mt_rand(). I want them to generate the same sequence for a fixed seed, >> regardless of PHP version. Do you think I can trust it? >> Janek >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> > > A while ago I saw on internals where someone was talking about why > their random numbers weren't giving the same response using the same > seed anymore after upgrading. The dev's said a random number is a > random number and should never be relied upon to give the same result, > ever. That may have been a different function, but I'm sure that > mindset would persist across all random functions. > Thanks, that settles it. I think I will use the second idea from Jochem or something like that. Janek