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Before he even backdoored it, the lottery was using a Mersenne Twister? The random number is called the seed, and the seed is plugged into the algorithm, a pse
by sweis 8y ago
Before he even backdoored it, the lottery was using a Mersenne Twister?
The random number is called the seed, and the seed is plugged into the algorithm, a pseudorandom number generator called the Mersenne Twister. At the end, the computer spits out the winning lottery numbers.
- egypturnash 8y agoMersenne Twister, with a seed based on the amount of Americum-241 detected by a Geiger counter. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americium#Occurrence https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americium#Occurrence if you’re curious how much there generally is and how much it might fluctuate.
- rootw0rm 8y agoSame thing I thought. Pure incompetence.