how good is .NET's Random for making random numbers?

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Anyone do any tests on it? I would assume it has improved since C's
rand(), but who knows. For some reason, and it could just be
coincidence, I seem to see patterns. But even a crappy rand()
function should be good enough to avoid that, so i may be seeing
things.

Zytan

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