Re: [flint-devel] randpoly

[Bill H. <goo...@go...>]

Actually, I think I am wrong. The seed values can be any 32 bit
numbers in that code, so long as the other constants are not altered.

Bill.

2008/8/8 William Hart <ha...@ya...>:
> Do you mean every time you run the program, or every
> time you generate a random polynomial.
>
> If you mean the former, then you could modify randint
> to start with a global seed value (or values).
>
> At present it always starts with the seed values
> 4035456057 and 6748392731 which need to be coprime to
> 4294967311 and 4294967357 respectively.
>
> You could provide a function called z_random_seed or
> something like that which crunched away with the
> current time in milliseconds and came up with two 32
> bit numbers which are coprime to those two values.
>
> If you do modify this function, can you ensure that if
> the seed function is not called that it uses the
> defaults that it currently uses, and also ensure that
> you make it work for 32 bit and 64 bit machines
> (you'll see there is separate code for both at
> present).
>
> Bill.
>
> --- Richard Howell-Peak <ric...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> When generating a random polynomial or using
>> something like randint, is it
>> possible to change the random seed because it keeps
>> giving me the same
>> polynomials every time.
>>
>> --
>> Richard
>> >
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