random number seeds
- To: mathgroup at yoda.physics.unc.edu
- Subject: random number seeds
- From: keiper
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 93 09:37:20 -0600
>what i would like >to do is save the current state of the computation from time to time >so that it could be restarted. this means that i need to know the >"current" random number seed so that the restart can use it. You want to use $RandomState In[12]:= rs = $RandomState; In[13]:= Random[ ] Out[13]= 0.0431805 In[14]:= $RandomState = rs; In[15]:= Random[ ] Out[15]= 0.0431805 Jerry B. Keiper keiper at wri.com Wolfram Research, Inc.