For my birthday, my brother-in-law gave me a 4992-digit hex number that, when used as a seed for Python’s random number generator, makes it so that printing a sequence of “random” ASCII characters actually prints a birthday greeting.
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For my birthday, my brother-in-law gave me a 4992-digit hex number that, when used as a seed for Python’s random number generator, makes it so that printing a sequence of “random” ASCII characters actually prints a birthday greeting.
I find it rather amazing that this is possible!
This is the program he sent with the seed:
with open("seed.txt", encoding="ascii") as handle:
seed = int(handle.read().strip(), 0)
r = random.Random(seed)
pending = ""
while True:
character = chr(r.randrange(128))
if pending + character == "\x1e\x1f":
break
print(pending, end="")
pending = character
print()@robinhouston Ably demonstrating that machine "randomisation", isn't.
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For my birthday, my brother-in-law gave me a 4992-digit hex number that, when used as a seed for Python’s random number generator, makes it so that printing a sequence of “random” ASCII characters actually prints a birthday greeting.
I find it rather amazing that this is possible!
This is the program he sent with the seed:
with open("seed.txt", encoding="ascii") as handle:
seed = int(handle.read().strip(), 0)
r = random.Random(seed)
pending = ""
while True:
character = chr(r.randrange(128))
if pending + character == "\x1e\x1f":
break
print(pending, end="")
pending = character
print()@robinhouston can you all stop boosting this wonderful thing so that I can send a version of it to my friend for his birthday?
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For my birthday, my brother-in-law gave me a 4992-digit hex number that, when used as a seed for Python’s random number generator, makes it so that printing a sequence of “random” ASCII characters actually prints a birthday greeting.
I find it rather amazing that this is possible!
This is the program he sent with the seed:
with open("seed.txt", encoding="ascii") as handle:
seed = int(handle.read().strip(), 0)
r = random.Random(seed)
pending = ""
while True:
character = chr(r.randrange(128))
if pending + character == "\x1e\x1f":
break
print(pending, end="")
pending = character
print()@robinhouston A million monkeys writing Python will eventually write Happy Birthday! I love it!
Happy Birthday!
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For my birthday, my brother-in-law gave me a 4992-digit hex number that, when used as a seed for Python’s random number generator, makes it so that printing a sequence of “random” ASCII characters actually prints a birthday greeting.
I find it rather amazing that this is possible!
This is the program he sent with the seed:
with open("seed.txt", encoding="ascii") as handle:
seed = int(handle.read().strip(), 0)
r = random.Random(seed)
pending = ""
while True:
character = chr(r.randrange(128))
if pending + character == "\x1e\x1f":
break
print(pending, end="")
pending = character
print()@robinhouston a bit like Tristan Miller's very silly "The Great Commodore/Microsoft Easter
Egg War" from 2015, which claims there are secret messages encoded in Commodore BASIC's RND() function ...
https://www.tpug.ca/tpug-media/nl/91-Fall2015.pdf#page=7 -
He's just confessed how he did it!
@robinhouston Very cool! If he enjoyed that, he would probably enjoy this as well - I fell into a similar rabbit hole with Python hashing
https://www.leeholmes.com/efficiently-generating-python-hash-collisions/
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