From: Caio Tiago Oliveira <caiot1@...>
Date: 2005-02-25T06:21:01+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: 2005 International Obfuscated Ruby Code Contest (IORCC)

Brian Schr�der, 24/2/2005 05:26:
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 08:19:19 +0900, Navindra Umanee
> <navindra@cs.mcgill.ca> wrote:
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
> 
> $ ruby -e 'srand 52019; puts rand(16)'
> 6

11 for me (WinXP).