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Re: Re rand('state',0)
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Paul Kienzle |
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Re: Re rand('state',0) |
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Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:21:32 -0400 |
On Oct 13, 2005, at 8:28 PM, Bill Denney wrote:
I know that the standard fortran rand (I don't know if this is the
same as ranlib) is a simple linear congruent RNG, and it has known bad
seeds. MT is (as far as I know) the state of the art RNG, and it has
no known bad seeds.
I believe a state of all zeros in MT is bad. The initialization code
for octave-forge/rand protects against this, which you can see by
running:
s = rand('state',0)
- Paul
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