I have been using Gnumeric for some time in the statistics classes I teach. This past semester, I did my first online section, and had them submit labs using Gnumeric. For one lab, I had them use the "randbetween" function to generate random numbers. 9 of the 17 labs I received had identical sets of random numbers. This makes me more than a little suspicious, but I have also seen students get the same sequence of numbers in the classroom. I know enough about pseudorandom number generators to know that if two people start at the same point in the sequence, they're going to get the same set of numbers. So I have two questions. 1) How is the pseudorandom number generator initialized (seeded)? 2) Is there any way to seed it manually? I can find no function for this mentioned in the manual.
Thanks for any help. --Chase -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Seeding-the-pseudorandom-number-generator-tp17307988p17307988.html Sent from the GnuMeric mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
