Difference between Matlab and Octave in random seeding

John W. Eaton jwe at bevo.che.wisc.edu
Tue Feb 26 04:31:35 CST 2008


On 15-Feb-2008, Mark van Rossum wrote:

| In octave (3.0.0)
| rand ('state', 1); randn
| will always produce the same number. I.e. the seed on rand affects randn as 
| well.
| 
| In  Matlab seeding rand does not seed randn.

Please try the following patch.

Thanks,

jwe


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