[…] To be clear, I am talking about using a seed value to initialize a modern, high-quality, pseudorandom number generator (RNG). For example, in SAS you can use the STREAMINIT subroutine to initialize the Mersenne twister algorithm that is used by the RAND function. If you are still using the old-style RANUNI or RANNOR functions in SAS, please read the article "Six reasons you should stop using the RANUNI function to generate random numbers." …