I was playing with the random number generator and noticed that the number was
always the same. Some sample code I was using to test was:

#declare test = 0;
#while(test < 50000)
    #debug concat(" ",str(rand(seed(76549)),1,5))
    #declare test = test + 1;
#end

Every single time I ran this the only value for all 50000 runs was .91258. I
could run it with rand(seed(test)) and get different values but for my program
as a whole that doesn't seem to be a real option. I understand that the seed
means that every time you run the program the numbers will appear in the same
order, but I thought that calling rand() with the same seed multiple times would
yield different results. Am I missing something?

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