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DOC: Added small clarification note, based on discussion in issue numpy#25778
This is my first PR. I am not sure what CI tags are needed for just documentation updates. I'll apply [skip ci] for now. This Closes numpy#25778.
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them are identical is about :math:`2^{-88}`, which is in solidly-ignorable
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Note that while `~SeedSequence` attempts to solve many of the issues related to
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user-provided small seeds, we still recommend using ``secrets.randbits(128)`` seeds
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for community practice reasons.
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.. [1] The algorithm is carefully designed to eliminate a number of possible
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ways to collide. For example, if one only does one level of spawning, it
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is guaranteed that all states will be unique. But it's easier to

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