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Not odd at all. The programmer can decide which to do. Anything like a Monte Carlo is going to use a random number generator in the program. But these are actually "pseudo-random" - you feed it a seed, and it generates a 'random' number from that seed. If you give it the same seed every time, you get the same 'random' number. But there is essentially zero correlation between the seed and the resulting 'random' number.
So the programmer uses a fixed seed if they want a 'random' sequence that is the same each time each time the program is run. Or they use the date/time or some other ever-changing number as the seed, if they want a different test sequence each time. Just depends what you are looking for.
-ERD50
Being a non engineer, this is interesting. I felt there was some concept of this nature being used, but couldn't express it as such.
So if given this is the nature of the Fidelity model, would it then capture the "tails" of a typical Monte Carlo type testing and thus provide a more conservative result vs. an historical sequential analysis?