Re: Seeds which depend on machine states
At 08:19 AM 9/22/95 -0700, Patrick Horgan wrote:
That assumes that you have someway of measuring the timing to microsecond precision. On most machines I've been on, if you get something time- stamped, even if there is a microsecond portion of the timestamp it's meaningless because it wasn't based on a timer with the required precision.
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