[issue21470] Better seeding for the random module

[Tim Peters]

Tim Peters added the comment:

> Thanks for the explanation. It's much clearer now.

Maybe, but it's also overblown - LOL ;-)  That is, no matter what the starting seed, the user will see a microscopically tiny span of the Twister's entire period.  So all those "provably correct" properties that depend on whole-period analysis remain pretty much theoretical no matter what we do.

It's just a "better safe than sorry" thing.

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