Re: Random Seed question

[Doug Donalson]

Feel free to correct me if I am wrong, but I believe a good RNG should not
need a special seed.  That is one of the requirements.  I tend to choose
phone numbers, permutations of my social security number,  or other
interesting number patterns.  I then enter about 40 of these into a text
file and go through them in order when I'm running multiple experiments with
my model.

Cheers,

   D3
----- Original Message -----
From: Olga Gilmore <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2000 7:31 PM
Subject: Random Seed question


> Could someone please advise me what numbers are the best to use in the
> PMMLCG1genImpl class constructor? Are prime numbers preferred? We are
trying
> to tackle this issue to pick a baseline for our experiments.
> Your insight in this area will be appreciated.
>
> Olga Gilmore
>
>
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