Update: God, I'm such a dolt sometimes. I had originally read this thread yesterday before the other reply on this subject was there. I didn't refresh and just thought I'd point out the below in a kind of teasing way. It has no real bearing on your underlying point I realize but I thought id take a nudge at the last comment. Anyway, this subject has been covered already. Move along now, try not to laugh at the merphqling...

Now you have deterministic "random" numbers :)

E:\>perl -le "srand 1; print join q(,),map { int rand 100 } 1..10;"
0,56,19,80,58,47,35,89,82,74

E:\>perl -le "srand 1; print join q(,),map { int rand 100 } 1..10;"
0,56,19,80,58,47,35,89,82,74

E:\>perl -le "srand 1; print join q(,),map { int rand 100 } 1..10;"
0,56,19,80,58,47,35,89,82,74

E:\>perl -le "srand 1; print join q(,),map { int rand 100 } 1..10;"
0,56,19,80,58,47,35,89,82,74
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Digital computers don't make non-deterministic "random" numbers... :-)

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