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If it's deterministic it's not random, it's a hash function. yes I know, it's called rand(). it is still a hash function(except on openbsd), just one with no st

• rollcat 4y ago
  For games you don't need randomness; you need a function that returns next in a series of uniformly distributed numbers (which RNGs happen to satisfy). But more importantly, you do need determinism, for the reasons I stated above. We're calling that function "random" for the same reasons we'd call another function "dial", even though there's no telephone involved.