Comment by gmueckl

Comment by gmueckl 3 days ago

2 replies

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.

jmalicki 3 days ago

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

  • gmueckl 2 days ago

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