| ▲ | themafia 2 hours ago | |
Well that opened a bit of a rabbit hole. Looking at the source code I saw this which made me chuckle:
Surely we wouldn't have DailyWTF quality code here. Looking for how it's referenced we find the RANDOM function itself:
Following that lead to the original ACM article referenced:https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/365696.365712 Which further lead to this rather interesting article on the history of the ROLL function which relies on this random number generator: https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/roll.htm Neat! | ||