The Seed command of the Edit menu displays the Seed dialog window, which allows you to set the new seed for the random number generator. Several algorithms use the random numbers to make random choices during their execution. The graph algorithms use random numbers to break ties in locating department nodes in the adjacency graph. The layout improvement algorithms based on simulated annealing use random numbers to select the next two departments to be tested for a possible exchange. An algorithm that uses the random numbers will always produce the same identical results if you select the same algorithm settings and set the same random number seed. The algorithm most likely will yield a different result for different random number seeds.
Click on OK to accept the modifications that you have made to the random number seed. If you click on Cancel then all the modifications that you made to the random number seed will be discarded and the random number seed will not be modified.
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