Re: rand('state',0)

[Paul Kienzle]

On Oct 13, 2005, at 4:10 PM, Quentin Spencer wrote:

> Steve C. Thompson wrote:
>
> > I'm collaborating with MATLAB users and they have
> > rand('state',0) in their code.  According to 
> > <http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/rand.html>
> > this is used in MATLAB to ``set rand to its default initial
> > state''.  This command produces an error in Octave, however:
> >
> >  octave:1> rand('state',0)
> >  error: rand: unrecognized string argument
>
> What version of octave are you using? I don't get this error with 
> 2.9.3. I haven't tried 2.1.71.

The 'state' parameter is an octave-forge extension, for compatibility 
and for allowing me to completely save and restore the state of the 
mersenne twister RNG.


- Paul



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