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Re: seeds used in ecj
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Sean Luke <[log in to unmask]>
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ECJ Evolutionary Computation Toolkit <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:43:46 -0400
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If you're talking about the jobs facility in ec.Evolve, the answer is: they increase by 1 each time.  If you have multiple threads, then they may increase by more than 1 in order to make sure that each thread has a unique seed.

Sean

On Sep 16, 2011, at 8:28 AM, Zheng Yin wrote:

> Hello,
> I have a small question below about the seed used in ECJ and hope someone 
> can help. 
> There are 10 runs and first seed is 8000 then what is the seed for the next 9 
> runs? Does the seed increase by 1 each time? ie. the seed in these 10 run are 
> 8000, 8001, 8002,.......8009. This is my understanding and hope it is correct. 
> 
> Many thanks
> Zheng

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