On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Michael Abshoff < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Stéfan van der Walt wrote: > > 2008/6/24 Stéfan van der Walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> It should be fairly easy to execute the example code, just to make > >> sure it runs. We can always work out a scheme to test its validity > >> later. > > Hi, > > > Mike Hansen just explained to me that the Sage doctest system sets the > > random seed before executing each test. If we address > > > > a) Random variables > > we have some small extensions to the doctesting framework that allow us > to mark doctests as "#random" so that the result it not checked. Carl > Witty wrote some code that makes the random number generator in a lot of > the Sage components behave consistently on all supported platforms. > But there is more than one possible random number generator. If you do that you are tied into one kind of generator and one kind of initialization implementation. Chuck
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