Comparing Matlab and Numpy code that uses random number generation

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Just wanted to further clarify on using the twister/seeding method: MATLAB and numpy generate the same sequence using this seeding but will fill them out in matrices differently.

MATLAB fills out a matrix down columns, while python goes down rows. So in order to get the same matrices in both, you have to transpose:

MATLAB:

rand('twister', 1337);
A = rand(3,5)
A = 
 Columns 1 through 2
   0.262024675015582   0.459316887214567
   0.158683972154466   0.321000540520167
   0.278126519494360   0.518392820597537
  Columns 3 through 4
   0.261942925565145   0.115274226683149
   0.976085284877434   0.386275068634359
   0.732814552690482   0.628501179539712
  Column 5
   0.125057926335599
   0.983548605143641
   0.443224868645128

python:

import numpy as np
np.random.seed(1337)
A = np.random.random((5,3))
A.T
array([[ 0.26202468,  0.45931689,  0.26194293,  0.11527423,  0.12505793],
       [ 0.15868397,  0.32100054,  0.97608528,  0.38627507,  0.98354861],
       [ 0.27812652,  0.51839282,  0.73281455,  0.62850118,  0.44322487]])

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