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I realize there are dozens of "apt-get update: failure to fetch" questions (I read through all I could find), but my present circumstance is unique to 12.04 and it affects all sources; not just launchpad. Additionally, I've tried several different servers in Europe and the U.S. as well as the "main…
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I realize there are dozens of "apt-get update: failure to fetch" questions (I read through all I could find), but my present circumstance is unique to 12.04 and it affects all sources; not just launchpad. Additionally, I've tried several different servers in Europe and the U.S. as well as the "main…
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The .NET Framework version 4 includes enhancements for ASP.NET 4 in targeted areas. Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft Visual Web Developer Express also include enhancements and new features for improved Web development. This document provides an overview of many of the new features that are included…
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By now you may well have noticed that .NET Reflector 6 and .NET Reflector Pro are out in the wild. The official launch happened today, although we actually put the software out last Thursday as part of a phased release plan to ensure that everything went smoothly today which, so far, it seems to have…
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I installed Redmine and run it in Apache2 with the Passenger module.
Apache2 boots, Passenger module gets loaded and the Redmine welcome page is shown, however when trying to login or navigate to other parts of the Redmine site, the browser keeps loading and loading and loading forever, although the…
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Hi, I am using .NET to create an artificial life program and I am using C#'s pseudo random class defined in a Singleton. The idea is that if I use the same random number generator throughout the application, I could merely save the seed and then reload from the seed to recompute a certain interesting…
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The challenge
The shortest code by character count that will generate (pseudo)random numbers using the Middle-Square Method.
The Middle-Square Method of (pseudo)random number generation was first suggested by John Von Neumann in 1946 and is defined as follows:
Rn+1 = mid((Rn)2, m)
For example:
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I have a random number generator:
int32_t ksp_random_table[GENERATOR_DEG] = {
-1726662223, 379960547, 1735697613, 1040273694, 1313901226, 1627687941,
-179304937, -2073333483, 1780058412, -1989503057, -615974602, 344556628,
939512070, -1249116260, 1507946756, -812545463, 154635395,…
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I am looking for a random number generator that can be biased. For instance, say I want a random number between 1-5, with the probability being:
1: Comes up 20% of the time
2: Comes up 10% of the time
3: Comes up 40% of the time
4: Comes up 25% of the time
5: Comes up 5% of the time
Is there anything…
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Why do i need to create an instance of Random class, if i want to create a random number between 1 and 100 ....like
Random rand = new Random();
rand.Next(1,100);
Is there any static function of Random class to do the same? like...
Random.Next(1,100);
I don't want to create an instance unnecessaril…
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