Am I correct in interpreting the documentation as implying that if I
want to get a full-range 32-bit unsigned random number I have to use
something like Random($100000000) ?
Internally, that gets a 64-bit random by calling genrand_MT19937 twice
and throwing away one of the results. Not only does that waste time, but
it also means that if I use a "well known" seed I only see every other
value from the expected sequence e.g. http://oeis.org/A221557
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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