Dear Kieran, > I opened two instances of GAP on two different machines. I ran the > following code on both instances: > > G := SymmetricGroup(15);; > for i in [ 1 .. 20 ] do > Display(Random(G)); > od; > > And both produced the same list of elements:
please have a look at section 14.7 of the reference manual. You can reset the default random number generator used by most library methods to a new seed at the beginning of each GAP session: Reset(GlobalMersenneTwister,1234567); With different seeds, you obtain different random sequences. The default seed is 1. Best regards, Franz _____________________________________________________________________________ Dr. Franz Gähler Phone +49 521 / 106 3876 Faculty of Mathematics Fax +49 521 / 106 153876 Bielefeld University Email gaeh...@math.uni-bielefeld.de D-33615 Bielefeld http://www.math.uni-bielefeld.de/~gaehler/ _______________________________________________ Forum mailing list Forum@mail.gap-system.org http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum
