<div dir="ltr">Hi Liang,<div>If you want different results, you will need to set random_setallseed:</div><div><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/random_setallseed.shtml">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/random_setallseed.shtml</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>random_setallseed is mentioned on a number of random number generator functions but surprisingly not on the two you mentioned. See:</div><div><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/random_uniform.shtml">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/random_uniform.shtml</a><br></div><div>for use-case examples.</div><div>Adam</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Liang Chen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lchen15@gmu.edu" target="_blank">lchen15@gmu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi NCL Talk,<br>
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Does anyone know how the “pseudo-random" numbers are generated in NCL random number functions (such as rand and generate_unique_indices)? It seems that these functions give the exactly same values every time when you re-run NCL…<br>
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For instance, I am using NCL 6.4.0 on Yellowstone. I use generate_unique_indices twice to get two sets of random indices:<br>
<br>
ncl 0> print(generate_unique_indices(<wbr>10))<br>
(0) 5<br>
(1) 3<br>
(2) 0<br>
(3) 1<br>
(4) 8<br>
(5) 9<br>
(6) 4<br>
(7) 2<br>
(8) 6<br>
(9) 7<br>
ncl 1> print(generate_unique_indices(<wbr>10))<br>
(0) 5<br>
(1) 6<br>
(2) 8<br>
(3) 2<br>
(4) 7<br>
(5) 1<br>
(6) 3<br>
(7) 9<br>
(8) 4<br>
(9) 0<br>
<br>
If I exit and re-enter NCL, generate_unique_indices will give the exactly same two sets of indices as above.<br>
<br>
Thank you in advance!<br>
<br>
~Liang<br>
<br>
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