[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #54342] rand() produces different results on octave 4.4.0 compared to earlier versions

[Rik]

Update of bug #54342 (project octave):

                  Status:                   Fixed => Confirmed              
             Open/Closed:                  Closed => Open                   

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Follow-up Comment #11:

Certainly looks like Octave versions 4.2 and below used the equivalent of


rand ("state", floor (v)))


But, that is only for positive values of v.  For negative values, they wrapped
around and the mapping is


intmax ("uint32") - floor (v);


This is getting complex.  I'm re-opening the bug report, but there should
probably be a discussion on the Octave Maintainer's list about how far we want
to go in preserving continuity.




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