[alexandir]

This

may seem farfetched, and I have conducted no formal tests of this theory, but while lotting or using /random, I

observed higher numbers after waiting 5-6 seconds before pressing "Enter" /random or Cast Lots. Has anyone else

seen things like this? I also saw that when just lotting instantly it yielded smaller numbers, in the 10-400

range. Keep in mind...this is just an observation.

[JayD]

Well...to

be totally honest with you no computer can generate random numbers. You can only have a set list of seemingly

random numbers and then tell the computer where to start in the list by setting a "seed" value.

Usually

using time in milliseconds works well. People have been known to use the latency of the last keys

pressed.

If this is how SE does it...well if you had that info you would probably want to keep as secret as

the HQ code you decyphered 2 years ago. I doubt they would use something user defined though...that just screams

bottable 999s.