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Re:Peculiar pattern found in 'random' prime numbers by noamyoungerm on Monday March 14, 2016 @01:49PM (#11284255)
Well, we're all familiar with https://xkcd.com/221/ or http://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25

The possibility, however remote, exists that you will randomly select a sequence with patterns and order. In cryptography, we define the term 'pseudorandom' in order to discuss a class of functions that look random. Pseudorandom sequences are sequences where, given the first n bytes of the sequence, an adversary cannot guess the n+1th byte with probability significantly higher than 1/2. Basically, it's important to distinguish between blindly selecting a sequence out of all possible sequences, and finding a particular sequence with no discernible internal order.

Re:Peculiar pattern found in 'random' prime numbers by tripzilch on Monday March 14, 2016 @05:52PM (#11285839)
I used to have a version of that Dilbert comic as a forum signature for a while, except I hacked a little PHP script so it would insert a random number instead of "nine" into that panel (still repeated), different on every reload. Just to confuse people :)