Seeding random number generator

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Hi,

I’m sure this is obvious to people smarter than me, but what is a
good, easy way to seed the random number generator? I see discussions
in the group and in the user guide about using the seed and execseed
commands. I’m not sure I can tell from the discussions which is used
when though.

Thanks,
Emily

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Emily,

I find I can get by using execseed, e.g.

execseed = 1 + gmillisec(jnow);

This sets the seed based on the time.

-Steve

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 9:54 AM, emily wrote:

Hi,

I’m sure this is obvious to people smarter than me, but what is a
good, easy way to seed the random number generator? I see discussions
in the group and in the user guide about using the seed and execseed
commands. I’m not sure I can tell from the discussions which is used
when though.

Thanks,
Emily

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