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diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3
index 867244d99ef..e0b745b214d 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: random.3,v 1.15 2002/02/07 09:24:07 ross Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: random.3,v 1.16 2002/10/01 17:29:23 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -112,9 +112,11 @@ the nearest known amount.
Using less than 8 bytes will cause an error).
The seed for the initialization (which specifies a starting point for
the random number sequence, and provides for restarting at the same
-point) is also an argument. The state array passed to
+point) is also an argument.
+The state array passed to
.Fn initstate
-must be aligned to a 32-bit boundary. This can be achieved by using
+must be aligned to a 32-bit boundary.
+This can be achieved by using
a suitably-sized array of ints, and casting the array to char * when
passing it to
.Fn initstate .