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Title: OT: Randomness
Post by: John Gateley 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 )

Title: Re: OT: Randomness
Post by: Mr ChriZ on April 16, 2007, 09:51:52 am

Don't think that top link works John.

Title: Re: OT: Randomness
Post by: zirum on April 16, 2007, 10:25:42 am

well, i knew it couldn't be 42...