[sage-devel] Re: Random elements

2007-03-03 Thread Robert Bradshaw
Of course. I agree that there should be an algorithm parameter, but I bet most people/functions will end up using the default which should be something reasonable. On Mar 3, 2007, at 8:25 AM, William Stein wrote: > I want to add that however random's are changed, e.g., for the > integers,

[sage-devel] Re: Random elements

2007-03-03 Thread William Stein
I want to add that however random's are changed, e.g., for the integers, the current behavior MUST still be available. The reason is because most benchmarks I know about for other systems use uniformly chosen random numbers in an interval. Loosing this behavior would make it much much more painf