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Re: RANDOM question [message #33223 is a reply to message #33220]

Mon, 16 December 2002 08:13

David Fanning
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Kenneth Bowman (k-bowman@null.tamu.edu) writes:

> I would like to save the state of the pseudorandom-number generator in a
> file so that I can resume (or reproduce) a calculation at a later time.
> Does anyone know if the state variable ("seed") is always a 36-element
> long vector? The docs say that "seed" is "a named variable that
> contains a longword array of the proper length", but does not give the
> "proper length".

It certainly *seems* to be a 36-element array. But why
not store it in a pointer (or pointer field) just to be
on the safe side.

Cheers,

David
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