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diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3
index 4650d34c833..b3bc560ad3c 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3
@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" $OpenBSD: random.3,v 1.25 2014/07/18 06:20:36 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: random.3,v 1.26 2014/11/25 17:40:38 millert Exp $
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: July 18 2014 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: November 25 2014 $
.Dt RANDOM 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
.Nm srandomdev ,
.Nm initstate ,
.Nm setstate
-.Nd better random number generator; routines for changing generators
+.Nd pseudo-random number generator; routines for changing generators
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In stdlib.h
.Ft long
@@ -186,5 +186,5 @@ functions appeared in
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Earl T. Cohen
.Sh BUGS
-About 2/3 the speed of
-.Xr rand 3 .
+The historical implementation used to have very weak seeding.
+As a result, the random sequence did not vary much with the seed.