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Comment by gmueckl

19 hours ago

No, this isn't right. There are totally legitimate use cases for PRNGs as sources of random number sequences following a certain probability distribution where freezing the seed and getting reproducibility is actually required.

And for a complicated concurrent system you can also replay the exact timings and orderings as well!

  • That's completely different from PRNGs. I don't understand why you think those things belong together.