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diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml
index 91a4012ce9..d3d7c90c31 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml
@@ -76,9 +76,15 @@
dictionary, and returns the old state.</p>
<p>One easy way of obtaining a unique value to seed with is to:</p>
<code type="none">
- random:seed(<seealso marker="erts:erlang#phash2/1">erlang:phash2</seealso>([<seealso marker="erts:erlang#node/0">node()</seealso>]),
- <seealso marker="erts:erlang#monotonic_time/0">erlang:monotonic_time()</seealso>,
- <seealso marker="erts:erlang#unique_integer/0">erlang:unique_integer()</seealso>)</code>
+random:seed(erlang:phash2([node()]),
+ erlang:monotonic_time(),
+ erlang:unique_integer())</code>
+ <p>See <seealso marker="erts:erlang#phash2/1">
+ erlang:phash2/1</seealso>, <seealso marker="erts:erlang#node/0">
+ node/0</seealso>, <seealso marker="erts:erlang#monotonic_time/0">
+ erlang:monotonic_time/0</seealso>, and
+ <seealso marker="erts:erlang#unique_integer/0">
+ erlang:unique_integer/0</seealso>) for details.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
@@ -142,7 +148,7 @@
<p>The implementation changed in R15. Upgrading to R15 will break
applications that expect a specific output for a given seed. The output
is still deterministic number series, but different compared to releases
- older than R15. The seed <c>{0,0,0}</c> will for example no longer
+ older than R15. The seed <c>{0,0,0}</c> will, for example, no longer
produce a flawed series of only zeros.</p>
</section>
</erlref>