Generating Random Numbers with a Specified Seed

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//Creates a Random instance with a seed of 12345.
Random random = new Random(12345L);

//Gets a ThreadLocalRandom instance
ThreadLocalRandom tlr = ThreadLocalRandom.current();

//Set the instance's seed.
tlr.setSeed(12345L);

Using the same seed to generate random numbers will return the same numbers every time, so setting a different seed for every Random instance is a good idea if you don’t want to end up with duplicate numbers.

A good method to get a Long that is different for every call is System.currentTimeMillis():

Random random = new Random(System.currentTimeMillis());
ThreadLocalRandom.current().setSeed(System.currentTimeMillis());

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