Re: Random numbers generation
El Mié 07 Dic 2005 15:06, David Dooling escribió:
> On 12/7/05, Aaron M. Ucko <ucko@debian.org> wrote:
> > Lisandro Damian Nicanor Perez Meyer <perezmeyer@gmail.com> writes:
> > > ¿Is there any way of making differents results without having to change
> > > the seed from "the outside"?
> >
> > It looks like you can also call gsl_rng_set(r, some_seed); or assign
> > directly to gsl_rng_default_seed, at least with the version of gsl
> > available in sid (unstable).
>
> I have found the best approach is to have a default seed (probably the
> default that GSL uses) and allow the setting of an alternative seed
> via a command-line option or input file (using one of the above
> methods). You do not want the seed to be ``random'', as that makes
> bugs difficult to find. You want your output to be deterministic,
> even when using random numbers.
>
> dd
> --
> David Dooling
Well, thank you everyone! You're incredible!
Cheers, Damian.-
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