From: Dave Bass <davebass@...>
Date: 2008-06-02T18:37:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Is this deterministic or not?

Tim Hunter wrote:
> P.S. I'm sure there's a lot of good things to be said about PRNGs and
> stuff but I'll let somebody else type it in.

I'll just add that Ruby's rand is deterministic, but it uses a very good 
PRNG algorithm (Mersenne twister). Unless you really need true 
randomness, it's good enough to use out-of-the-box.
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