INTERACT FORUM

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: OT: Randomness  (Read 879 times)

John Gateley

  • Citizen of the Universe
  • *****
  • Posts: 4957
  • Nice haircut
OT: Randomness
« on: April 16, 2007, 09:20:49 am »
Well, I missed april 1st by a few days, but it would have been fun that put out a build where the internal random number always returned 17:

http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2007/02/is_17_the_most_random_number.php

Or maybe 9:

http://web.archive.org/web/20011027002011/http://dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert200118278102

(I saw these in Bruce Schneier's Cryptogram newsletter)

j (who still wants a mode to make things truly random instead of apparently random  ;D )

Logged

Mr ChriZ

  • Citizen of the Universe
  • *****
  • Posts: 4375
  • :-D
Re: OT: Randomness
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2007, 09:51:52 am »
Don't think that top link works John.
Logged

zirum

  • Galactic Citizen
  • ****
  • Posts: 403
  • still learning.
Re: OT: Randomness
« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2007, 10:25:42 am »
well, i knew it couldn't be 42...
Logged
Note to myself: Read, think, write - Read, think, write - think, read, write - think, write, read - think, write, read... Aahhw, i always mess that up...
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »