random number with seed

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i cannot understand the following line , can anybody provide me some example for the below statement?

If two instances of Random are cre

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This means that when you create the Random object (e.g. at the start of your program), you will probably want to start with a new seed. Mostly people choose some time related value, such as the number of ticks.

The fact that the number sequences are the same given the same seed is actually very convenient if you want to debug your program: make sure you log the seed value and if something is wrong you can restart the program in the debugger using that same seed value. This means you can replay the scenario exactly. This would be impossible if you would (could) use a true random number generator.