In <http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=126562459427981&w=1>,
Janne Johansson <jj () it ! su ! se> wrote
[[about rand(3)]]
> The weird part of this (I think) for us outside viewers is that rand()
> has been known to be really poor at random for a long time. Not "a few
> years", but like 20+ years and more.
Much more: its flaws (including the low-order K bits being periodic
with a period which is <= 2^K) were already documented in Knuth volume 2's
1st edition, whose copyright date was 1969.
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