And this SO post goes into details on the PRNG in Java http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9907303/does-java-util-random-implementation-differ-between-jres-or-platforms
> On 3 Mar 2015, at 16:15, Robin East <robin.e...@xense.co.uk> wrote: > > This is more of a java/scala question than spark - it uses java.util.Random : > https://github.com/scala/scala/blob/2.11.x/src/library/scala/util/Random.scala > > <https://github.com/scala/scala/blob/2.11.x/src/library/scala/util/Random.scala> > > >> On 3 Mar 2015, at 15:08, Vijayasarathy Kannan <kvi...@vt.edu >> <mailto:kvi...@vt.edu>> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> What pseudo-random-number generator does scala.util.Random uses? >
