It would seem that resetting the randomSeed each time you use the random function would only have a 1-in-4,570,422 chance of getting the same seed as the previous run, no?
Yes, but the chances of having the same seed as any of teh previous runs becomes progressively larger. Is it not a bit like the shared birthdays in a classroom. It only takes 23 people gathered in a room to make the chance of two of them sharing a birthday more than 50%.
From my probably poor calculation, I think if you ran your randomSeed algorithm about 2500 times, there would be a 50% chance that the same randomSeed had been chosen at least twice. (At 4000, I think the chance is over 80%) In many situations, I think a repeated sequence would be worse than a biased sequence.
A long time since I did this kind of thing, so apologies if I have this wrong.
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