On Jul 13, 3:37 am, Carl Witty <carl.wi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Unsurprisingly, setting the random seed makes the random_expr() always > > return the same value: > > > sage: set_random_seed(0xdeadbeef) > > sage: random_expr(5) > > tanh(-pi^real_part(v1)*sin(log(pi)*imag_part(v1))) > > sage: set_random_seed(0xdeadbeef) > > sage: random_expr(5) > > tanh(-pi^real_part(v1)*sin(log(pi)*imag_part(v1))) > > sage: random_expr(5) > > v1 + arccos(e/golden_ratio) > > > I suggest that the doctests for sage.symbolic.random_tests simply set > > the random seed to a fixed value. > > The testing framework automatically runs set_random_seed(0) before > testing every docstring, so this shouldn't be necessary. > > Carl Witty
I completely agree that this should not be necessary, but the output of this function does change!!! Andrey -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org