Re: st: Query on -set seed-

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

Check your math, I think 2^31=2147483648


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Goldstein" <richgold@ix.netcom.com>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: st: Query on -set seed-



> I'm confused -- what is illegal about this seed?  it is clearly much 
> smaller than 2^31 -1
>
> Rich
>
> Roger Newson wrote:
>
>
> > Fellow Statalisters (especially StataCorp):
> >
> > According to -[R] functions-, the -set seed- command can take any seed 
> > from 0 to 2^31-1 inclusive, and, if I specify a seed with one of these 
> > values in a do-file under -version- control and then use the -uniform()- 
> > function, then the same result will be produced every time I execute that 
> > do-file with the same input data. My query is, will this still be the 
> > case if I set the seed to an even higher integer? I ask because, last 
> > July, I inadvertently wrote a do-file containing the statements
> >
> > set seed 4753533809;
> > gene double ranord2=uniform();
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