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   From: tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk   
      
   On 18/02/2026 07:47, Tim Rentsch wrote:   
      
   > The key property of a (pseudo) random number generator is that the   
   > values produced exhibit no discernible pattern.   
      
   For a PRNG, they exhibit the pattern of following the sequence of the PRNG!   
      
   Is it that, for any finite sequence of numbers from a PRNG, without   
   information about where it came from and how many numbers came before   
   you can't predict the next number better than chance?   
      
      
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