Random Number (seeded)

Despite the name, this is not a source of genuine randomness — it's a fully deterministic linear congruential generator (LCG), the same class of algorithm C's rand() historically used, seeded and stepped by `seed = (1664525 * seed + 1013904223) >>> 0` (line 18). Given the same Seed, Min, and Max every time, it produces the exact same three draws and Next Seed State every time — that determinism is why this calculator, unlike a truly nondeterministic random-number source, can carry mechanically-verified factual claims about its own behavior at all. It also swaps out-of-order bounds rather than erroring: `Math.min(lo, hi)` and `Math.max(lo, hi)` (lines 15-16) mean typing Min=100 and Max=1 quietly produces draws between 1 and 100, not an error or an empty range.

One coincidence worth knowing before reading too much into what changing the seed appears to do: at Seed=42, Min=1, Max=100, a seed of 37 and a seed of 46 both happen to produce 26 as the very first draw — purely by chance, since the LCG maps two different seeds into the same 1-to-100 bucket on that particular draw — while the second and third draws from those same two seeds diverge sharply (64 vs 46, 16 vs 32). What this does not account for: any statistical test of the LCG's own randomness quality (period length, correlation between successive draws) — it is fast and reproducible, not cryptographically or even statistically strong.