Difference between Matlab and Octave in random seeding

[John W. Eaton]

On  5-Mar-2008, Michael Creel wrote:

| On this issue, I vote for having the seed set in a single spot for all RNGs.
| This facilitates greatly parallel use of Octave. Sometimes it's important to
| be able to reset the seed, and it's a lot less likely to screw up if only
| one needs to be reset.

I guess I'm missing something because I don't see how having separate
states for rand and randn has anything to do with parallelism.

jwe