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From: | Paul Kienzle |
Subject: | Re: rand('state',0) |
Date: | Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:00:21 -0400 |
On Oct 13, 2005, at 4:10 PM, Quentin Spencer wrote:
Steve C. Thompson wrote:I'm collaborating with MATLAB users and they haverand('state',0) in their code. According to <http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/rand.html>this is used in MATLAB to ``set rand to its default initial state''. This command produces an error in Octave, however: octave:1> rand('state',0) error: rand: unrecognized string argumentWhat version of octave are you using? I don't get this error with 2.9.3. I haven't tried 2.1.71.
The 'state' parameter is an octave-forge extension, for compatibility and for allowing me to completely save and restore the state of the mersenne twister RNG.
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