Thread: time Delays and Random functions

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    Thanks for the help

    How can a "seed" generate a psudeo random numbers?

    How does random function generators work inside the code?

    Is a Seed a special algorithm?

    How can Random fucntion have more than one output? like 5 outputs before it returns or starts over?

    Doesn't a random function have a pattern its going to repeat itself?

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    How can a totally logical machine like a computer generate a random number?

    A seed is a 'random' starting point, like what time it is, from which the bits are flipped around to produce 'pseudo-random numbers'.

    Wiki: Psuedo-random number generator

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    Thanks Tonto for the help

    So the concepts is the random "Flips" and "shuffles" the bits around?

    But how does it "Flip" and "shuffle" the bits ?

    The random function "Distributes the bits around" but how does it do that?

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