Re: Same sequence of random number generators than under Matlab?

[David Bateman]

Why no just make Octave's rand/randn work in Matlab. This is the third
or fourth time I've suggested this over the year with code I posted on
the octave-forge list in 2005 as a mex-file.

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=425A617A.3010004%40motorola.com&forum_name=octave-dev

I've updated this for newer versions of Octave and attach it here.
Compile this file taking the randmtzig.{c,h} files from the Octave
sources. Copy the resulting file to rand.MEXEXT and randn.MEXEXT (where
MEXEXT is returned by the mexext function in matlab) and try something like

rand("state",1:3); rand(1,3)
randn("state",1:3);randn(1,3)

in Matlab and Octave and you should get the same results.

D.


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