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[chipsy]

This is partly the fault of Flash itself. It doesn't provide control over seeding the API's PRNG.

A diligent coder can of course implement their own PRNG method, but that is not an excuse for providing a half-broken feature.

[tesseract → chipsy]

The regular random number generator in Flash is automatically seeded and you can't specify a seed. This article, though, talks about using BitmapData.noise() which takes a seed as a parameter, and normally when I see people discussing the use of that API for general purpose random number generation it is precisely because it allows control over seeding.

[antirez → chipsy]

rc4 is a prefect algorithm to build a fast and very high quality PRNG for instance.