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  Re: Toward a less-lame rand() function.  
From: clipka
Date: 20 May 2009 11:20:00
Message: <web.4a141f1e2a89ae6df708085d0@news.povray.org>
"Slime" <fak### [at] emailaddress> wrote:
> I don't think POV-Ray's RNG does any hash with your initial value. I think
> clipka was referring to other RNGs.

If you're thinking along the lines of strong cryptographic hashes, then you're
right, that's probably not done in POV-Ray's RNG.

I was thinking of a more general definition of "hash", as basically *any* digest
of an input value other than equality.


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