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Comment by thothless

2 hours ago

psuedo-random number generators are deterministic.

a human can predict that the number that is generated will be suitably random.

a human can predict the result from a pseudo-random generator with enough knowledge of seed/program state/etc.

now I can't say this holds for a TRUE random number generator. nor do I know where we were going with this.

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