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remove confusing comparison with srand (it does not return the old seed)

use .Sh AUTHORS and .An for author
OPENBSD_3_0
assar 23 years ago
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      src/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3

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src/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 View File

@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" $OpenBSD: random.3,v 1.12 2000/04/20 13:50:02 aaron Exp $
.\" $OpenBSD: random.3,v 1.13 2001/06/09 01:41:59 assar Exp $
.\"
.Dd April 19, 1991
.Dt RANDOM 3
@ -81,16 +81,8 @@ For example,
will produce a random binary
value.
.Pp
Unlike
.Xr srand ,
.Fn srandom
does not return the old seed; the reason for this is that the amount of
state information used is much more than a single word.
(Two other routines are provided to deal with restarting/changing random
number generators).
Like
.Xr rand 3 ,
however,
.Fn random
will by default produce a sequence of numbers that can be duplicated
by calling
@ -162,8 +154,8 @@ it is initialized.
With 256 bytes of state information, the period of the random number
generator is greater than 2**69
which should be sufficient for most purposes.
.Sh AUTHOR
Earl T. Cohen
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Earl T. Cohen
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
If
.Fn initstate


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