On Friday, 9 May 2014 at 00:43:10 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
As for ordinary non-crypto RNGs, I honestly can't imaging any purpose for reliably generating the same values other than "playing back" a previous sequence. But if that's what you want, then IMO it's better to record the sequence of emitted values, or even record/replay the higher-level decisions which the randomness was used to influence.
Theres lots of uses. e.g. Minecraft.
