Re: bad random numbers

[Mike Miller]

On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Joao Cardoso wrote:

> try:
> 
>    echo 'rand("seed",time);rand(3) ' | octave -q
> 
> On 2.1.14 this does not seem to suffer from the reported problem, if the
> seed is initialized this way.

yes.  It works also on octave 2.0.13.

Mike



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