Re: rand("state")

[Francesco Potorti`]

>We are talking about choosing seeds at random with replacement.  The 
>probability that the same seed is chosen twice in a sample of size N is 
>highly sensitive to the total population size.  2^32 is not a very large 
>population size and the probability of a collision becomes worrisome when 
>N gets to 10,000 or so, but (2^32)^625 is *very* large and it makes 
>collisions nearly impossible.  It makes a lot of difference.

Right, I stay corrected.

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