--- David N Bertoni/Cambridge/IBM <david_n_bertoni@[...].com>  wrote:
>  
>  Hi Jeni,
>  
>  > Right. I was imagining it differently, I think --
>  math:random($length)
>  > will always give you the same sequence of random numbers, so
>  > math:random($length, $seed) would be used to get a different
>  sequence
>  > of random numbers, of the same length. The utility would be in
>  > providing that different sequence of random numbers, rather than
>  the
>  > next random number in the same sequence. David -- was that what you
>  > had in mind when you suggested seed?
>  
>  Yes.
>  


Then a better name for it will be randomSequence().

Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev.
P.S. I already have a correct implementation of randomizeList() -- it's
quite different both from random() and from randomSequence().


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