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Author rhettinger
Recipients gem, rhettinger
Date 2017-01-05.01:18:30
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> why have an ignored parameter that is not plainly documented as ignored.

Because it improves the substitutability of one RNG for another (i.e. the same reason that we even have a seed() method).
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