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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Parallel_Simulation
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Vincent LAFAGE <lafage@ipno.in2p3.fr> writes:

> But different seeds will in the end be different starting points along
> the same sequence (well, at least for congruential generators, I still
> have to confirm it for Mersenne Twister algorithm that is used).  And
> this would in turn lead to fine correlations between the sequences.

That will be true whether you initialize with 1,2,3... or with clock
values. The only way to get truly different PRNGs must be to use
different algorithms, surely?