Programming-Idioms

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[Lua] forgot to expllain stuff

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2016-11-05, 02:59:19

2016-11-05, 03:00:47

Idiom #70 Use clock as random generator seed

Get the current date and provide it as a seed to a random generator. The generator sequence will be different at each run.

Get the current date and provide it as a seed to a random generator. The generator sequence will be different at each run.

math.randomseed( os.time() )

math.randomseed( os.time() )

os.time is precise

os.time is accurate to a second only

http://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#pdf-os.time

http://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#pdf-os.time

http://codepad.org/edxMmZwY

http://codepad.org/edxMmZwY

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