On 12/7/05, Aaron M. Ucko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lisandro Damian Nicanor Perez Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ¿Is there any way of making differents results without having to change the > > seed from "the outside"? > > It looks like you can also call gsl_rng_set(r, some_seed); or assign > directly to gsl_rng_default_seed, at least with the version of gsl > available in sid (unstable).
I have found the best approach is to have a default seed (probably the default that GSL uses) and allow the setting of an alternative seed via a command-line option or input file (using one of the above methods). You do not want the seed to be ``random'', as that makes bugs difficult to find. You want your output to be deterministic, even when using random numbers. dd -- David Dooling
