Why is the "state" important?

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Mark
Mark on 18 Jul 2012
I am going through a code which uses 'state' in a line. What does 'state' do, and could it be of importance? I read that it "resets the generator to its 100th state", but what does this mean?
rand('state',100)

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per isakson
per isakson on 18 Jul 2012
Edited: per isakson on 18 Jul 2012

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