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by Vincent Foley.
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Digg linked to an article that explained how pseudo-random numbers were generated. The formula was simple enough and the article mentionned that the real challenge was coming up with a good seed. I wrote a little method in Ruby to generate a random number, and I used an equation with the current time [...]