Re: Fwd: [Help-gsl] random number distributions

[Joseph Wakeling]

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John D Lamb wrote:
> There is nothing to stop you using two random number generators, though
> you probably only need one. If you use two random number generators with
> the same seed and call them equally often then the results will be
> strongly correlated. If you use just one they will be nearly
> uncorrelated. So I use one unless there's a good reason to do otherwise.

Is there any means of selecting two seeds so as to guard against this,
or will any two different seeds do the job as well as can be?

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