Re:GOTOphobia Considered Harmful (In C)
by josefx on Monday February 27, 2023 @02:32AM
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> operate predictably because they are deterministic operations
If I sat you in front of a computer generating numbers using a pseudo random number generator and gave you as context the last number it generated, could you make any prediction about the next number it generates?
Now if it used a prng that was known and standardized to only compute one number could you predict anything about the next number now?
If I sat you in front of a computer generating numbers using a pseudo random number generator and gave you as context the last number it generated, could you make any prediction about the next number it generates?
Now if it used a prng that was known and standardized to only compute one number could you predict anything about the next number now?