Am 31.10.2012 07:33, schrieb Marcin Błażejowski: > Hi, > is there a way to get exactly the same pseudo random series from uniform > distribution in Gretl and Matlab? > > I know that I can generate series in one program, write it as a vector > and so on, but maybe there is a way to make both RNGs to start at the > same point (I've tried to use the same seeds for MT but it doesn't work > even for 0). > The problem is probably on the Matlab side almost by definition, since it's closed-source. Is it known / do you know which implementation exactly they are using? Also, I'm not 100% sure but it could be that the 32bit/64bit platform could play a role. On what OS are you running gretl and Matlab?