[Numpy-discussion] How do I seed the radom number generator? (original) (raw)

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Sat Jun 24 16:56:05 EDT 2006


Keith Goodman wrote:

Using the same seed sometimes gives different results:

from numpy import random def rtest(): rs = random.RandomState([11,21,699,1]) a = rs.rand(100,1) b = rs.randn(100,1) return sum(a + b)

mytest.rtest() array([ 41.11776129]) mytest.rtest() array([ 40.16631018])

Fixed in SVN. Thank you.

http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/ticket/155

-- Robert Kern

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