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Started by griffenjam October 24, 2001 04:12 PM

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griffenjam

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October 24, 2001 04:12 PM

Is is possiable to work backwards through previous random numbers? For example lets say you want to create a time reverse effect on random events. Do I have to use a FILO buffer to save all my random numbers, or can I use the current seed to figure out the last random number and so on...? Jason Mickela ICQ : 873518 E-Mail: jmickela@sbcglobal.net ------------------------------ "Evil attacks from all sides but the greatest evil attacks from within." Me ------------------------------

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Oluseyi

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October 24, 2001 04:22 PM

If you reimplement the rand() function, yes. By default, though, there''s no going back. The source for both GCC and MSVC rand() functions was posted recently.