Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> This is great if you just want to produce a really long stream of random 
> numbers. But are there any PRNGs out there which offer random (!) access 
> to the stream of numbers? In other words, the ability to compute the Nth 
> random number without needing to compute any of the preceding ones?

  You could use a hashing function to convert N to a pseudorandom number,
and it should work exactly as you describe.

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