This SRFI does not specify any valid upper bounds for the arguments <i>i</i> and <i>j</i> of the <code>random-source-pseudo-randomize!</i> procedure.  This note recommends that implementers follow the lead of the sample implementation, and allow any value of <i>i</i> and <i>j</i> that is less than 2<sup>51</sup>, while also ensuring that any random source produced by this function to generate at least 2<sup>76</sup> values before looping or overlapping with any related source.

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If a soldier is asked why he kills people who have done him no harm, or a
terrorist why he kills innocent people with his bombs, they can always
reply that war has been declared, and there are no innocent people in an
enemy country in wartime.  The answer is psychotic, but it is the answer
that humanity has given to every act of aggression in history.  --Northrop Frye