For example, how does an infinitely randomized world like Minecraft manage to generate me an identical world to my friend with just a handful of numbers that they send me?
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The game does math whenever it needs to place an object in the world. The seed is one part of that math, and the only thing that changes. If you don’t specify a seed, one is chosen at random, but if you enter one, that number goes into all the formulas. Since all the inputs are the same, the output will be as well.
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