Nicolas George <nicolas$george@salle-s.org> wrote:

> You are asking two different kinds of problems here: the randomness of one
> sequence versus the randomness of the mapping seed -> first term. The first
> one is guaranteed (it would not be called rand() otherwise), not the first.
> For all you know, the first term could be the seed itself.
>

I'm not sure I really understand that whole concept. (Long ago, Warp helped me
out with a detailed discussion of the finer points of rand and seed; I need to
revisit that post for a 'refresher course'.)

Ken W.

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