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Don't describe random() as "better".

Remove the bug about rand() being faster.
Add a bug about historical implementations seeding very poorly.
OPENBSD_5_7
millert 10 years ago
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.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" $OpenBSD: random.3,v 1.25 2014/07/18 06:20:36 jmc Exp $
.\" $OpenBSD: random.3,v 1.26 2014/11/25 17:40:38 millert Exp $
.\"
.Dd $Mdocdate: July 18 2014 $
.Dd $Mdocdate: November 25 2014 $
.Dt RANDOM 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
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.Nm srandomdev ,
.Nm initstate ,
.Nm setstate
.Nd better random number generator; routines for changing generators
.Nd pseudo-random number generator; routines for changing generators
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In stdlib.h
.Ft long
@ -186,5 +186,5 @@ functions appeared in
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Earl T. Cohen
.Sh BUGS
About 2/3 the speed of
.Xr rand 3 .
The historical implementation used to have very weak seeding.
As a result, the random sequence did not vary much with the seed.

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