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Old 05-09-2003, 05:43 PM
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Originally posted by Soul-Blade
Yes, well the way I believe random works, is it gets some number built into the system, which actually is entirely systematic (as opposed to random), but changes so fast the normal user does not notice.
Often the system tick count is used with some hashing algorithm, but sometimes a list of random numbers is created via an algorithm that takes a initialisation seed (though this seed is, again, usually taken from the clock). It would seem that Graal uses the latter.
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