Rune <new### [at] runevisioncom> wrote:
> And as previously stated, this is a feature, not a bug. I've been told 
> earlier when I asked myself.

  POV-Ray uses a very simple linear congruential generator. More precisely:

randValue = randValue * 1812433253 + 12345

(which is then scaled to the range 0.0 - 1.0)

  You have encountered one of the disadvantages of such a linear congruential
generator, as described here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator#Advantages_and_disadvantages_of_LCGs

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                                                          - Warp

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