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=?utf-8?Q?Dagfinn_Ilmari_Manns=C3=A5ker?= <ilmari@ilmari.org> writes:
> Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> writes:
>> I think it'd be sufficient to just say that it's a deterministic
>> pseudorandom number generator. I don't see much value in documenting
>> the internal algorithm used.

> WFM on both points.

Sold then, I'll make it so.

			regards, tom lane