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"robin"  wrote in message

| So, what is all this?  In particular, is there something special about
| the value of 3.7 billion?

>No, nothing special at all.
>The purpose of the exercise is just to confirm that after generating
>1000000000 random numbers, you get the same answer as George does.

Alas, I think you are making some strong assumptions about the state of 
computing in the hereafter.