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Message-ID: <D2F5B9A7-649C-48AC-8425-4AFDC458CF40@dcn.davis.ca.us>
Date: 2018-12-23T04:09:42Z
From: Jeff Newmiller
Subject: Random seed
In-Reply-To: <1061f17a-3ab1-f651-5a14-0e5376e70dd6@ntu.edu.tw>

It doesn't matter. The whole point is to make the pseudo-random sequence repeatable... unless you have a specific reason to avoid repeatability.

On December 22, 2018 5:33:39 PM PST, Steven Yen <styen at ntu.edu.tw> wrote:
>I have known from the old days to set a random seed of a LARGE ODD 
>NUMBER. Now I read instructions of set.seed and it requires ANY
>INTEGER. 
>Any idea? Or, does it matter. Thanks.

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Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.