Random Number seeds, picking the nit

[William Donzelli]

>   Nits? Are we going to have a spirited discussion or are you going to pick 
> nits? (While you're at it, might as well bag on my execrable spelling and 
> egregious transposition errors, all firmly rooted in slowly advancing 
> presbyopia and the need for (yet another) set of trifocals.)

We are not picking nits - the math gets nasty.

(a nit is a unit of information related to the bit - essentially a bit has
2 values, but a nit has e (2.8mumble) values. Go look it up if you don't
believe me. I think it is an AT&T term, useful for random noise math 
stuff)

William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org