"Andrey A. Chernov" writes:
> On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:55:42 +0000, Mark Murray wrote:
> > 
> > How do you _know_ that your newly chosen magic number isn't going to cause
> > some kind of recurring (and too-short) sequence of numbers?
> 
> I run simple test for it, it is not too short.

"simple test"?

How long did you check for?

random() is documented to not repeat before some number of outputs;
how do you know that this fix does not significantly shorten that?

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