Quote Originally Posted by RussMartin View Post
Just how far from "random" is it?
Pretty FAR!

It's a REPEATING sequence of 65535 numbers.

If you start with the same "Seed" each time ...
You will get the exact same numbers every time you run your program.

If you start with a different seed, all that does it put you somewhere in the middle of that same repeating sequence.

There's really nothing "RANDOM" about it.
It's called pseudo-random, but even that's a stretch.
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