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Because users never wanted mathematical randomness. They wanted variety. Not that saying "random" is wrong, but users mostly mean it in a colloquial sense, whi
by gervu 7y ago
Because users never wanted mathematical randomness. They wanted variety.
Not that saying "random" is wrong, but users mostly mean it in a colloquial sense, while programmers are apt to interpret it in a technical sense. But one leads to math.urandom() and the other to shuffle algorithms.