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October 30th, 2004, 11:13 PM

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random seed?

I wanna how Java get a random seed from the functions such as setseed()? Beacuse I am afraid the random number is not safety enough!

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October 31st, 2004, 03:27 PM

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I have read that Java uses the time in milleseconds to seed random numbers. I do not know whether or not this is true though.

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