[SciPy-Dev] seeded randn gets different values on osx

[Pauli Virtanen]

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 16:16:56 -0600, Charles R Harris wrote:
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> I've been thinking that the ziggurat implementation should be added as a
> separate function, znormal or zignomal, perhaps together with a fast
> version returning lower precision that could be helpful in simulating
> noise.

If the only difference in practice is that the ziggurat returns a 
different sequence of numbers for a given seed, then perhaps just a 
ziggurat=True keyword argument could be used for the algorithm selection?

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Pauli Virtanen