[LAD] random curiosity

Gabriel M. Beddingfield gabrbedd at gmail.com
Mon Jan 25 22:59:36 UTC 2010



On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, Patrick Shirkey wrote:

>> Good question! Some times you simply have to have that little bit of extra
>> quality of randomness in your life, even if it's just to make you imagine
>> you feel better.
>>
>>
>
> The placebo randomness affect...

>From 'man 3 random_placebo':

     If rand(), random(), and random_r() aren't random
     enough for you, random_placebo() is generates
     more randomer numbers by algorthmically generating
     more entropies on your system.  The return is
     guaranteed be the most random number you could
     imagine.

:-)

-gabriel



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