segfault with rand state

[Jean-Michel besnard]

Hi,

however the help for the rand function specifies that a state for rand can be
specified by a vector < 625 I have tried with a bigger vector and it crashed my
octave (though I do know the limit is definitely 625)

output:

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octave:1> rand('state',zeros(1625,1))
panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
save to `octave-core' complete
Segmentation fault

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