[Numpy-discussion] random number generation in python compared to gsl

Giovanni Samaey giovanni.samaey at cs.kuleuven.be
Wed Nov 5 09:05:19 EST 2008


>
> Hi,
> how about other seed values ?  I thought seed=0, is (often) used to
> mean a "random", i.e. current time or alike, seed value ... !?

Not in this case: I always get the same sequence with seed=0  
(different for both implementation, but the same each time I run it.)
I got around it by installing pygsl and taking random numbers from  
there instead of from numpy.

But I still find it strange to get two different sequences from two  
implementation that claim to be the same algorithm...

Giovanni

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