Warp wrote:
>   One of the basic things taught at school is that you should never attempt
> to make your own PRNG if you don't have extensive experience about the
> subject, if you want any kind of quality to it.

And even if you do. Knuth tells stories of his own attempts while writing 
his semi-numeric methods tome, having thought he came up with a great RNG 
and found it generated a couple hundred numbers before settling into a short 
cycle of something like 3 or 4 values.



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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Why is there a chainsaw in DOOM?
   There aren't any trees on Mars.

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