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Re:PCG, A Family of Better Random Number Generators by eterm on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @04:23AM (#9890283)
One of the benefits of a PRNG is reproducibility. If you are doing a monte carlo simulation, then you can get good results while still starting runs from predictable seeds. (e.g. [0,1,2,3,4,...])

This gives you both good quality random numbers during the simulation run yet lets others reproduce your results and expand with more results if required.

Re:PCG, A Family of Better Random Number Generators by dchest on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @04:30AM (#9890298)
ChaCha20 is a cipher, of course, it creates reproducible sequences.