(But that I was making no particular attempt to hide myself ... why bother?)

I dunno… Maybe because you are right now one node short of ruling the entire Worst Nodes page and already would if your frequent anonymous posts were included? You will in a matter of hours anyway unless someone steps up in the meantime to demand free code or defend you.

As to the rest. You have firmly and spectacularly demonstrated you are the last person in the monastery to trust on anything related to random numbers.

Wow back in 2014? I remember it like yesterday.

Cheers Rolf
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