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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