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Set the Random Seed

Jaap Murre

Generate pseudo-random numbers but with a specific seed, so all subjects get the same pseudo-random series.

NeuroTask Scripting includes the excellent JavaScript random library seedrandom.js by David Bau (see https://github.com/davidbau/seedrandom). This example shows how to quickly create a seeded random number generator. See the Github page for more usage cases.

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var ran = new Math.seedrandom("Something"); // See https://github.com/davidbau/seedrandom

console.log(random()); // Built-in based on seedrandom is NOT seeded by this
console.log(ran()); // Ran is now a new pseudo-random generator, which is seeded
console.log(ran());

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