Gaussian White Noise - Seed

Hi everybody,
I want to call the "Gaussian White Noise.vi" several times (lets say, in a loop) and thereby, I want to fully control the state of the random generator which is used in the VI.
I think, that the "seed" input somehow determines the state of internal random generator (which is unfortunately "hidden" in a DLL).
So, what I would like to have is an output parameter that returns the last state of the random generator .
The idea is, that I can call the VI several times setting the "seed" input parameter equal to the state of the random generator of the last call. By this, I could get a reproducible stream of random numbers by simply setting the "seed" input parameter of the first call to a user defined value.
I hope, I was able to explain my wishes.
Thanks for all replies
Stefan

Hi Kevin,
thanks for your good idea. This works fine.
If a guy from NI reads this message: It would be helpful anyway, if the state of the random generator would be returned by the VI "Gaussian White Noise.vi". Think about an extensive simulation with a many iterations and after a certain time, an interesting result occurs. If one wants to reinvestigate this interesting result, one has the re-run the complete simulation until one gets to the time instant where the result occurs. If the state of the random generator would be availabe, one could save this state in each iteration and re-running the complete simulation would not be neccessary anymore. One would reload the state of the generator for the interesting iteration and would have to re-run a singe iteration. Would be much faster.
Thanks again
Stefan

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