Wallace, John
>
> I have a text file with 512 8-byte hexadecimal numbers
> generated from
> radioactive decay (via Hotbits
> http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/) that I
> would like to use as seeds for the uniform() function. I
> see how to use the
> set seed argument, but I'd like to have the text file used
> as the source of
> the set seed argument (ideally, incrementing through the
> lines each time a
> new instance of uniform() is called for. Is it possible to
> load the file
> into an array of some sort then set a variable that loops
> through the
> numbers and is used as the seed whenever uniform() is
> invoked? Can stata
> use hex numbers as seeds, or do I need to convert them into
> decimal first?
I'd read them in once and store them as macros. Then
call them up one by one within a loop. As for hexadecimal
input, I doubt it, but you can always convert easily with
-inten-. Possibly you'd need to read your radioactively
decaying numbers as a string variable, and convert on
the fly.
Nick
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