From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Jun 26 21:13:58 2003
Subject: documentation flaw
From: "Chris Drane" <cdrane at optusnet dot com dot au>
To: <bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 20:41:04 -0500

I am using Octave 2.1.36.

In the help documentation for the built in function "rand", it says that you
can reset the state of the number generator using the call
v=rand("state",x), where x is a scalar.  This does not work.   I believe
that it should actually say v=rand("seed",x).  In any case the "seed" option
has no example.

Chris



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