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Originally Posted by 1885.Blake
Regardless, I definitely thank you for the bottom line answer - Given identical inputs, separate invocations of this software will produce results that are likely to differ.
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The "results" in this context might mean different things to different people. The actual alliance pairings are almost certain to differ from run to run, but the statistical nature of those pairings seems to be pretty consistent. Those statistics are what the algorithm was designed to produce, and that's the "results" we've been asked to assess.