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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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"Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@comcast.net> writes:

[stuff about random number generator]

Note that Robert Eachus is truly an expert on random number issues.
I wouldn't know a good random-number generation algorithm if it bit
me on the behind.  ;-)  And I don't use them in my work.  I (and others)
were just using the "random" function as an example of a function that
returns a sequence, one at a time, where we believe it's OK to have
side effects (i.e. it's OK that the function returns a different value
each time it's called).

- Bob