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Julia, for example promises that seeded random numbers will only be the same within the minor version and there's a 3rd party package if you need reproducible random numbers. Guaranteeing cross version random number compatibility comes at a pretty major cost for performance (as new better algorithms are discovered) and removes your ability to bugfix the random number generator.


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