sympy: what's wrong with this picture?

Mensanator mensanator at aol.com
Tue Mar 4 18:58:41 EST 2008


On Mar 4, 4:40 pm, Mensanator <mensana... at aol.com> wrote:
> On Mar 4, 3:00 pm, Istvan Albert <istvan.alb... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Mar 4, 3:13 pm, Mensanator <mensana... at aol.com> wrote:
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> > > But what if _I_ wanted to make a repeatable sequence for test
> > > purposes? Wouldn't factorint() destroy my attempt by reseeding
> > > on every call?
>
> > Would it?
>
> I don't know, haven't tried it yet,

Now I have and there is no problem.

> merely extrapolating from how I _THINK_ it works.

And my thinking was mistaken, the patch doesn't reset the seed,
so nevermind.

> I used to be a System Test Engineer
> and had a gift for being able to walk up to hardware/software
> and break it. Spooky? No, because I could extrapolate from
> the design, I could often anticipate just where to nudge it to
> cause it to crash. I wasn't very popular with the programmers.
>
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> > It may just be that you are now itching to see a problem even where
> > there isn't one.
>
> No, no, no. That would be an oh-what-a-giveaway, wouldn't it?
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