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New Fortran implementation by user [tkoenig]
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2019-09-26, 20:44:14

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2019-09-27, 22:40:57

Idiom #69 Seed random generator

Use seed s to initialize a random generator.

If s is constant, the generator output will be the same each time the program runs. If s is based on the current value of the system clock, the generator output will be different each time.

Idiom #69 Seed random generator

Use seed s to initialize a random generator.

If s is constant, the generator output will be the same each time the program runs. If s is based on the current value of the system clock, the generator output will be different each time.

Code 
  call random_seed(size = n)
  allocate(seed(n))
  ! ...
  call random_seed(put=seed)
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seed is an allocatable variable.