Re: How is Math.Random emulated? and how good is it?

Thanks, I'll try that other one and see if it helps.

My Application/Doddle is here:
http://www.darkflame.co.uk//Modoodler/Modoodler.html
If anyone is interested. Hitting Run Commandsd on the default settings
shows the bias.

On Jan 11, 3:21 pm, Chi Hoang <c...@chi.ca> wrote:
> java.lang.Math.random()  calls the native javascript Math.random().
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> However, java.util.Random implements the random number algorithm
> specified in the spec for that class - you can try using that if
> java.lang.Math.random() is not random enough
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> On Jan 11, 6:19 am, Kevin Jordan <ke...@kjordan.net> wrote:
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> > All GWT's emulation does is natively call the javascript
> > Math.random().
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> > On Jan 11, 3:02 am, darkflame <darkfl...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > I have been playing about drawing fractals in GWT using canvas and the
> > > ¨ chaos game¨ method.
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> > > However when picking large amounts of random numbers I seem to be
> > > getting a bias. That is, the randomness doesn't seem evenly
> > > distributed.
> > > I have read many sources online that say that Javas normal
> > > Math.Random() is flawed for this stuff, and some alternatives are
> > > offered.  However as GWTś Math.Random is merely an emulation, I
> > > wondered if it suffered the same flaws or not.
> > > Does anyone use alternative methods?
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> > > This is all rather new too me, so if anyone has any pointers it would
> > > be helpfull.

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