Re: [FWP] Shufflebug

["Dave W. Smith" <dws@postcognitive.com>]

At 17:18 7/18/00 -0400, abigail@delanet.com wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 03:19:15PM -0400, Amir Karger wrote:
> >
> > The only question I would have is if there's some magical way to generate
> > more randomness than the 2^32 you get from rand, without requiring
> > Math::TrulyRandom.
>
>
>No. See Knuth.

Or, see http://lavarand.sgi.com/seed/current/block.html, parse out
the big block of random numbers, and use it to reseed rand() between
every shuffle.

Dave


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