note 107017 deleted from function.mt-rand by danbrown

From: Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:55:41 +0000
Subject: note 107017 deleted from function.mt-rand by danbrown
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Note Submitter: daniel at danielnorton dot com ---- Although this is already filed as a bug, it's an extremely serious bug, so I think it warrants a warning here until the PHP maintainers can address it and update this documentation accordingly. The problem, generally, is that mt_rand() fails for certain combinations of $min and $max if $min is less than zero. Specifically, it fails if ($max - $min) <= mt_getrandmax (). The further outside that range, the more likely it is to fail. More at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60543

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