Re: random doesn't feel very random

[Richard Stallman]

    That is probably because we have only one global random state and many
    packages reset it from time to time (see message-unique-id).

Why would extra invocations of (random t) cause repetitive behavior?

    Ideally we should call (random t) only once or allow multiple random
    states.

Supporting multiple random seeds would be a natural thing to do
if there is some advantage in sticking with one random seed
for a particular purpose, or if there is some harm in doing
(random t) extra times.  But what reason could there be for that?
Except studying the pseudorandom number generator, that is.

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