Random number troubles
Ethan D Schartman
es5c+ at andrew.cmu.edu
Wed Apr 20 15:31:35 PDT 1994
>How does chaos theory come into it?
It doesn't, I hate it when the press finds some new _esoteric
mathamatical concept that you ORDINARY joes is just too dumb ta'
understand_.
I especially hate it when the reporter demonstrates his own stupidity by
calling a conjecture like the butterfly effect an axiom >:{
I want to set fire to that butterfly and see what happens to New Yorks weather.
As for the PRNG I wonder if they did something like periodically rotate
the seeds...
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