Hi,
1. I think on many computer systems, the limit on the range of numbers for the seed comes out to be 0 to 2,147,483,647. (2^31-1) I’ll file a bug report on this, since it shouldn’t crash and should probably have used a larger integer model.
2. Behavior did change a lot for V8. Previously it was the only first couple of digits that really got used. Now the entire real is rounded to the nearest integer. Any values after a decimal are ignored.
If you run each model in series, or at least staggered starts in real time, you can try the new “ActualTime” built-in variable. It reads the computer clock at start up to generate a unique seed value for each run.
Brent
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