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...tent-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Content-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.33.0203011649142.3119@unix09.wehi.edu.au> Don Knuth recently updated its RNG, following the discovery of a weakness in the seed initialisation (see http://Sunburn.Stanford.EDU/~knuth/news02.html), so I believe that the corresponding code in R should be updated as well. If it may be usefull, I attach a patch to do the change. Notes: - only a few lines of code have really changed, but the order of the functions has changed in Knuth's original code, so the patch is longer...