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From: Joel Fritz <JFritz@sharperimage.com> > We've been playing with CEERANO to try to construct a list of 13 digit > unique numbers in "random" order. It looks like that after 20,000 or so, > diminishing returns sets in in a big way. > > Looks like using the seed value returned by the function is not a good idea. Indeed, most random number generators are designed to produce normally distributed values from a seed. Feeding the seed back in defeats the design. Knuth advocates to throw away the first several thousand values after each seeding.
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