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in thread JAPH randomness

I knew computer randomizers were pseudo-random, it just surprised me how pseudo it was, to be able to seed the generator and come up with the same number every single time. I thought that on a system running multiple processes, the length of time to execute commands would vary marginally to produce a set (3, 6?) of "random" numbers that reliably comes up.
Hopefully the days of truly random numbers on computers comes soon.


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Re^6: JAPH randomness
by domm (Chaplain) on Feb 06, 2005 at 08:57 UTC
    OTOH, seeding the random number generator to allways get back the same results is very handy during testing. 
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#!/usr/bin/perl
for(ref bless{},just'another'perl'hacker){s-:+-$"-g&&print$_.$/}

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