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Posted 2002-11-10, 08:43 PM in reply to LordZpider's post "random numbers"
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What i'm trying to say is simply, how do computers generate random numbers?

and i know there are set parameters. but for example, i tell me calculator de create random intergers, and it just start spitting out random numbers, no patterns... just RANDOM... where do these numbers come from?!
They actually come from a formula that's fed from a small clock. That way, the number doesn't stay the same and is random enough for your purposes.
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