This tells one not to really on PRNGs to generate a truly random state. It is not very difficult to write some code to find the seed for printing a given word if you got some time to waste :)
Here is one way. http://pastebin.ca/2350376 Sample: >>> findseed.find_seed_for_word('hello',100000) 0th count reached 100000th count reached 200000th count reached 300000th count reached 400000th count reached 500000th count reached 600000th count reached 700000th count reached 800000th count reached 900000th count reached 1000000th count reached 1100000th count reached 1200000th count reached 1300000th count reached 1400000th count reached 1500000th count reached 1600000th count reached 1700000th count reached 1800000th count reached 1900000th count reached Seed is 1944062 Time taken: 30.5493340492 30s to find the seed, not as bad as I thought. On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Abdul Muneer <abdulmun...@gmail.com> wrote: > Printing 'hello world' like a sir! :) > > p.s.:caution when using builtins as variable names. (e.g.: len) > > Regards, > Abdul Muneer > > -- > Follow me on Twitter: @abdulmuneer <http://twitter.com/#%21/abdulmuneer> > > > On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Mandar Vaze / मंदार वझे < > mandarv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Seeding a pseudo-random number generator makes it > > > always generate a sequence specific to the seed. > > > > > > http://xkcd.com/221/ > > > > -Mandar > > _______________________________________________ > > BangPypers mailing list > > BangPypers@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > -- Regards, --Anand _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
