Add note that seed should be non-zero #867
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After losing about a half hour debugging why my code wasn't deterministic when it should be, I found out that `randomSeed` doesn't do anything when the `seed` is zero (https://github.com/arduino/ArduinoCore-avr/blob/master/cores/arduino/WMath.cpp#L30)
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Maybe it's useful to have a sort of warning banner/markup instead? |
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Related discussion: arduino/Arduino#3887 |
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After losing about a half hour debugging why my code wasn't deterministic when it should be, I found out that
randomSeeddoesn't do anything when theseedis zero (https://github.com/arduino/ArduinoCore-avr/blob/master/cores/arduino/WMath.cpp#L30)