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diff --git a/doc/source/release/1.17.0-notes.rst b/doc/source/release/1.17.0-notes.rst index a93eb2186..4bdc6105f 100644 --- a/doc/source/release/1.17.0-notes.rst +++ b/doc/source/release/1.17.0-notes.rst @@ -171,15 +171,15 @@ The functions `load`, and ``lib.format.read_array`` take an `CVE-2019-6446 <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-6446>`_. -.. currentmodule:: numpy.random.mtrand +.. currentmodule:: numpy.random Potential changes to the random stream in old random module ----------------------------------------------------------- Due to bugs in the application of ``log`` to random floating point numbers, the stream may change when sampling from `~RandomState.beta`, `~RandomState.binomial`, `~RandomState.laplace`, `~RandomState.logistic`, `~RandomState.logseries` or -`~RandomState.multinomial` if a ``0`` is generated in the underlying `MT19937 -<~numpy.random.mt11937.MT19937>` random stream. There is a ``1`` in +`~RandomState.multinomial` if a ``0`` is generated in the underlying `MT19937` +random stream. There is a ``1`` in :math:`10^{53}` chance of this occurring, so the probability that the stream changes for any given seed is extremely small. If a ``0`` is encountered in the underlying generator, then the incorrect value produced (either `numpy.inf` or @@ -559,4 +559,3 @@ Structured arrays indexed with non-existent fields raise ``KeyError`` not ``Valu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ``arr['bad_field']`` on a structured type raises ``KeyError``, for consistency with ``dict['bad_field']``. - |