how do you use a non number as a seed in an rng?

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Published on 2010-03-28T04:17:49Z Indexed on 2010/03/28 4:23 UTC
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how would you use, say, the string "abc" as the seed of an rng? would you change it into 0x616263, or 123, or hash it with sha1 (or some other hash), or something else?

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