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   From: Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com   
      
   David Brown  writes:   
   [...]   
   > As a deterministic function, a PRNG will obviously follow the pattern   
   > of its generating function.  But the aim is to have no /discernible/   
   > pattern.  The sequence 3, 4, 2, 1, 1, 7, 0, 6, 7 has no pattern that   
   > could be identified without knowledge of where they came from - and   
   > thus no way to predict the next number, 9, in the sequence.  But there   
   > is a pattern there - it's the 90th - 100th digits of the decimal   
   > expansion of pi.   
   [...]   
      
   A Google search for 342117067 gives numerous hits referring to the   
   digits of pi.   
      
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   Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com   
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