Re: srand(0)

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From	Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
[...]
> As a deterministic function, a PRNG will obviously follow the pattern
> of its generating function.  But the aim is to have no /discernible/
> pattern.  The sequence 3, 4, 2, 1, 1, 7, 0, 6, 7 has no pattern that
> could be identified without knowledge of where they came from - and
> thus no way to predict the next number, 9, in the sequence.  But there
> is a pattern there - it's the 90th - 100th digits of the decimal
> expansion of pi.
[...]

A Google search for 342117067 gives numerous hits referring to the
digits of pi.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */

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    Re: srand(0) James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2026-02-19 14:33 -0500
      Re: srand(0) David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2026-02-19 20:47 +0100
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    Re: srand(0) Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-02-19 14:39 -0800
      Re: srand(0) David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2026-02-20 09:16 +0100
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