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Making a random numberMaking a random number
Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on December 12, 2007 - 7:17am
PWGD will need solid and fast randomization to make the jury pools. (With those who have already served pulled out, but that's another detail.)
It's well known that computers aren't good at random.
Does combined random make something more random? Use the number of milliseconds into the current second as the seed to generate a random number and the decimal part of the CPUs exact temperature to act as the seed for generating another random number and the two are used to pick a page from the virtual big book of random numbers and pick a line on that page.
Just wondering ;-)
Apparently some software uses the function for creating a GUID to get a random number.
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