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07-17-2017, 08:48 PM	#1
LXer LXer NewsBot Registered: Dec 2005 Posts: 128,340 Rep:	LXer: Unix: How random is random? Published at LXer: As anyone who thinks about random numbers very often might tell you, numbers generated by a program have a limitation. Programs follow carefully crafted steps, and those steps aren’t even close to being truly random. You can increase the randomness of RANDOM's value... Read More...

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