Andrew Burke

I have found that urn stops after outputting 4094 random numbers. I tried various values over 4094 and at slower output speeds. Has anyone else run into this problem? I am using max 5. Maybe this is different in new versions.

I have found that urn stops after outputting 4094 random numbers.  I tried various values over 4094 and at slower output speeds.  Has anyone else run into this problem?  I am using max 5.  Maybe this is different in new versions.


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I think I read somewhere that urn has a maximum but I can't remember where.. (or did I dream about it?)

You can go around it by using two [urn] objects, adding 4094 to one of them, and combining the lists. Here's one way:

[urn] maxes out at 4094. End of story. It's documented somewhere, but I've been living with this so long that I can't remember where. It's been this way since about 1989.

I'm not sure if this is an issue, based on the original question, but if you need to start a new sequence when you've removed all the "balls" from the urn, trigger a 'clear' message when you get a bang out the right outlet.

Note that the difference between the behavior of [urn] and [random] becomes less and less noticeable as the size increases. By the time you get to [urn 4094], there are few situations where an observer is likely to tell the difference from [random 4094]. So maybe explain why you need such a humongous [urn]. And, of course, there are ways to build larger urns, one way following the example laonikoss provided.

Another way to get huge urns is available to folks using Litter Power with the [lp.ernie] object.

Peter, I'm afraid your Litter Power don't work with 6.1, resnamecopy is still not found, but now the externals can't load anymore...

https://cycling74.com/forums/is-urn-limited-to-a-maximum-amout-of-numbers

@Patrick: please direct message me. There is an interim fix for this problem.

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