32bit Hash

From Second Life Wiki

Here's a function to turn an UUID into an integer.

 
integer Key2Integer(string inkey)
{
    return (integer)("0x" + llGetSubString(llMD5String(inkey,0), 0, 7));   
}
 

Note: The Seedable_PRNG example presents MD5 of MD5 of MD5 of ... as pseudo-random numbers