make_random_state broken for Maxima installed with Ecl
Subject: make_random_state broken for Maxima installed with Ecl
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:51:43 -0600
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Oliver Kullmann
<O.Kullmann at swansea.ac.uk> wrote:
> I have now the problem that I use make_random_state(0)
> at quite a few places.
>
> So it seems I need to assemble my own Maxima package:
> - the module "maxima" of the cvs repository is to be used?
> - once I see on "Index of /maxima/src"
> http://maxima.cvs.sourceforge.net/maxima/maxima/src/?sortby=date#dirlist
> that the changes I'm looking for appeared, I have to
> download the module "maxima", go into the 5.16.3 package
> and replace all related entries there with the downloaded
> ones?
That seems like a lot of work. Why not replace 0 by 1?
Is there something special about the state generated from 0?
Robert Dodier