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Re: [Shop-talk] Re laser range finder

To: "'Shop-Talk List'" <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Re laser range finder
From: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:11:21 -0700
> Turned out to be a fantastic program for demonstrating how 
> orderly the random numbers a computer generates are.

Which is why they are properly called pseudo-random numbers !

However, it's easy to avoid having the pattern look the same.  Just pick up
something that changes each time, like system time in milliseconds, to use
as the seed for each program run.  Assuming your PRN generator works
properly (although many don't), the pattern should not repeat for literally
billions of numbers.

Randall
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