On Saturday, November 14, 2015 at 2:52:15 AM UTC-8, Thierry (sage-googlesucks@xxx) wrote: > > Why not simply get a fresh seed ? > > sage: @parallel > ....: def f(a): > ....: sage.misc.randstate.set_random_seed() > ....: return a+random() >
If os.urandom works then that's a good option. Otherwise it uses the time to reseed, which because of the parallellism will have pretty low entropy. That might be problematic even for Monte-Carlo type computations. So according to the documentation, randstate is not guaranteed to be good for initialization in parallel settings. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
