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Re:Predicting the next Math.random() in Java by SeanLuke on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @07:44AM (#8256993)
Nope.

Essentially all languages allow manual seeding: almost none specify guarantees with regard to RNG behavior. I'm pretty sure this is because determinism of a given process important (everyone who does simulation needs that), but locking into potentially bad RNGs for the language or library itself, in fact specifying them, is a really bad idea.

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