Talk:Linear congruential generator: Difference between revisions

I kinda remember something about not all seeds being good? a seed of zero for example? --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 05:07, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

:Shouldn't be. Because of the coprimality between a and m, all values from 0 to m-1 will appear exactly once in a cycle, so any seed is as good as another. You may be thinking the situation where people choose ''predictable'' seeds, such as 0, current time, process id, etc while trying to use PRNG for sensitive work, giving an attacker a higher chance of success at finding the pseudo random sequence. --[[User:Ledrug|Ledrug]] 05:23, 7 July 2011 (UTC)