random changes

dan danbmil99 at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 7 18:44:53 EDT 2003


I did try random.WichmannHill, which gives completely different data
to either the new or the old version.

danbmil99 at yahoo.com (dan) wrote in message news:<fbf8d8f2.0308071030.1f174d34 at posting.google.com>...
> just a suggestion --
> 
> next time the core RNG is changed, I think it would be useful to have
> an
> -oldrandom switch.  It is common practice in simulation projects to
> depend
> on the fact that your random numbers will come out the same if you use
> the same seed.  In bumping to 2.3 with the new Mersenne algorithm, I
> have no easy way of duplicating my old results.




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