1.11 Summary

Let's review what things you should do when creating a simulation.

• Decide whether you are running with a fixed seed or random seed; a random seed is the default,
• Decide how you are going to manage independent replications, if applicable,
• Convince yourself that you are not drawing more random values than the cycle length, if you are running a long simulation, and
• When you publish, follow the guidelines above about documenting your use of the random number generator.

The program samples/main-random.cc has some examples of usage.

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