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aj_hackman
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A brief history of random numbers (2018)
Much like my beloved comb sort, I use xorshift because the implementation is small and it's Good Enough. God's Own 100 SLOC PRNG would have to be near-perfect and take three clock cycles to contemplate switching.
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