Tom Melly wrote:
> 
> This resolves all the other questions.
> 
> > > If it is a fixed sequence, how long is it?
> >
> > I don't know.
> >
> 
> Except this one.

I don't know about this particular random number generator, but a good one
should have a period of at least several millions.  

According to the comments in the HF-Lab/gforge source code, the best
existing random number generator has a period of 10^600 while the one used
there has 2^144.

Christoph

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