Re: Re rand('state',0)

[Brian Blais]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> 2.9.x accepts both "state" and "seed".  But it is still the older rand
> based on the Fortran ranlib.  Should we replace that with the code
> from Octave-forge?

I am not sure which algorithm the fortran ranlib uses, but I seriously doubt it is 
better than MT.  if it is old, then it certainly is much poorer than MT and should be 
replaced with the octave-forge code.


my 2c.


                bb

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