Ethan, You do not even need to do that. In fact, it is a bad idea.
If you just want to simulate randomly without being able to reproduce the result, do away with the seed. If you need reproducibility then you need to "know" the seed. In that case, that random draw is not helping you either because you cannot reproduce that part. On Mar 19, 2014 1:03 PM, "Ethan Anderes" <ethanande...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Patrick: > > You've convinced me not to worry about it in the short term and that > 'seed = rand(1:10000)' should work as a lazy way to know the initial seed. > I'll study up on understanding the mechanism behind pseudorandom number > generation for the long term. > > Cheers, > Ethan >
