I see we have a random number generator in base/, and I could make use of it for a thing I'm doing for AMD. One thing that worries me, though, is getting stuck in a loop of n random numbers which would force my randomness to not be quite as random as I'd like when consuming lots of values. I think theoretically all determinstic random number generators are going to repeat eventually because the input space is only so big, but it would be great if the period of ours was a really large value. Does anybody know what it is? Is there a good technique for expanding it?
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