yes - i finally saw that and took the call to the GDDinit out of the loop and this may be working, but I don't know how to explain this to the kiddies. Probably should have just stuck with Excel where I understand the generators. Too complicated by far. Thanks everyone for your help.
On Sunday, 21 October 2012 13:56:06 UTC+2, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > On 2012-10-21, LFS <lfah...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > > ------=_Part_87_6472836.1350820122321 > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > > > Actually Dmitrii with this change it is giving me exactly the same > > empirical data each time! > > well, I just gave you a general framework for initializing and using a > pseudo-random number generator. > If you initialize it with the same seed, you get the same pseudo-random > sequence. (sometimes uselful, if you want to check that you get the > same results from seemingly random computation) > So if you restart your computation from the very beginning, inclusing > the initializing of the random seed with the same value, you will get > the same data each time you do the computation. > > But if you want to emulate true randomness, you only have to initialize > the seed once. > > HTH, > Dmitrii > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support?hl=en.
