shortid32/lib/random/random-from-seed.js

Amazingly short non-sequential human-friendly unique id generator.

'use strict';

// Found this seed-based random generator somewhere
// Based on The Central Randomizer 1.3 (C) 1997 by Paul Houle (houle@msc.cornell.edu)

var seed = 1;

/**
 * return a random number based on a seed
 * @param seed
 * @returns {number}
 */
function getNextValue() {
    seed = (seed * 9301 + 49297) % 233280;
    return seed/(233280.0);
}

function setSeed(_seed_) {
    seed = _seed_;
}

module.exports = {
    nextValue: getNextValue,
    seed: setSeed
};