On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Unsurprisingly, setting the random seed makes the random_expr() always
> return the same value:
>
> sage: set_random_seed(0xdeadbeef)
> sage: random_expr(5)
> tanh(-pi^real_part(v1)*sin(log(pi)*imag_part(v1)))
> sage: set_random_seed(0xdeadbeef)
> sage: random_expr(5)
> tanh(-pi^real_part(v1)*sin(log(pi)*imag_part(v1)))
> sage: random_expr(5)
> v1 + arccos(e/golden_ratio)
>
> I suggest that the doctests for sage.symbolic.random_tests simply set
> the random seed to a fixed value.

The testing framework automatically runs set_random_seed(0) before
testing every docstring, so this shouldn't be necessary.

Carl Witty

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