On 19 May 2013, at 07:29, Matthew Seaman <m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> 
wrote:

> Why not just write each of your streams of random numbers to a file and
> then just re-read the file when you need to reuse that sequence?

That involves quite a lot more careful management.

The approach of logging seeds is quite widely used. In fact MySQL replication 
sends out the seed in each replica because they do it ass backwards and forgot 
someone night actually embed random() in their query.

James

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