Practice question · True or false
A pseudorandom generator started from the same seed produces exactly the same sequence every time.
Hints
- What makes a simulation reproducible?
- Deterministic by construction.
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True
Why
True. It is a deterministic algorithm, so the seed fixes the whole sequence, which is what makes a stochastic simulation reproducible and debuggable. The same property makes it unsuitable for cryptography without a hardware entropy source, since predicting the state predicts every future draw.
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