[scilab-Users] Re: Re: bug in rand generation?

[Samuel Gougeon]

----- Message d'origine -----
De : Amaël Delaunoy
Date : 05/05/2010 15:41:
> Why don't fixing the seed be the feature, and that by default the rand 
> function would return real random values?
> It makes more sense to me, and I think this is the way it is done in 
> other scientific programming environments I use (octave, matlab or 
> python).
I agree with you Amaël. If for some experiments it is necessary
to yield repeatable random sequences, it is always possible by
fixing the seed at a given value. But this should not be the default.

If you are eager to get a random seed indexed on the clock, you
may set it in your SCI\scilab.start or your SCIHOME\scilab.ini | .scilab
files. See also help rand , help grand , help getdate etc.

Regards
Samuel