From: Navindra Umanee <navindra@...>
Date: 2005-02-24T08:19:19+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: 2005 International Obfuscated Ruby Code Contest (IORCC)

Brian Schr�der <ruby.brian@gmail.com> wrote:
> That evaluates to:
> $ ruby -e 'srand 52019;puts"Azzp!bljqkmw!Xrfy!nmgaiq!".
> unpack(%q(c*)).map{|x|x^rand(16)}.pack("c*")'
> Gwvz&baf|ej}%T{a|.ikhbcw)
> 
> And I thought it was about obfuscating the code, not the answer ;)

So ruby -e 'srand 52019; puts rand(16)' prints 6 for you, not 11?

Maybe it's only guaranteed to be deterministic on a particular
machine.  Hey, I guess you ask for random, you get random!

Cheers,
Navin.