[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53668] Matlab rand "state" vector is 35x1 versus Octave's 625x1

[Rik]

Update of bug #53668 (project octave):

                Category:                    None => Octave Function        
              Item Group:        Incorrect Result => Matlab Compatibility   
                  Status:                    None => Wont Fix               
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 
                 Summary: Wrong result of command => Matlab rand "state"
vector is 35x1 versus Octave's 625x1

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Follow-up Comment #1:

It's not wrong, it is just different.

The actual details of the internal state are not important, as long as a
programmer can save and restore the state of the random number generators in
order to get a consistent random number stream then the function is working
well enough.

Consider the example of adding 3 + 5.  If you were doing this manually you
would keep the numbers in base10, write them down on a piece of paper, and
compute the result of 8, also in base10.

A computer, however, would first convert the number 3 to base2 "11" and the
number 5 to base2 "101".  It would then add to get "1000" and finally convert
back to base10 result of 8.  The fact that the computer has a completely
different representation of the numbers than you or I is unimportant.  It is
only important that addition actually works correctly, as it indeed does.

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