Chain Reaction test 1 a fizzle

Comment #4

hypersoniq — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:44:15 GMT

It does seem impossible, but it is a great exercise in programming for me. Even if I get nowhere with results... I have learned a great deal about Arrays, reading from and writing to text and CSV files, global vs. local variables, UI construction... Educationally, I did win! Next attack will actually test my Date-as-seed theory AND capture the possibilities of them doing test draws... more on that later.

Comment #3

truecritic — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 06:19:36 GMT

Good luck with your experiments. I remember when you talked about this idea way back. I think it's tougher than the proverbial needle in a haystack.

Comment #2

hypersoniq — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:04:44 GMT

Now the test must move more to the "reverse engineering" phase. There are several things I can try, most center around guessing when they click "Run" on their program and estimating the timestamp. I actually thought about dividing the list up by years, but this thing is either going to work against the whole list or not at all. The random numbers are based on a pre-determined list, not sure if it's provided by Microsoft or Intel... If they are using a source of entropy other tha... [ More ]

Comment #1

truecritic — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:35:25 GMT

Use the first half (the oldest draws) to generate which random seed does the best. Use the second half (the newest draws) to see if it continues to produce at the same percentage of hits.<br

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hypersoniq — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 18:42:49 GMT