{"id":178,"date":"2007-02-26T12:53:13","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T12:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/178"},"modified":"2014-04-17T11:00:41","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T10:00:41","slug":"random","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/178","title":{"rendered":"Random"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered\" src=\"http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/random_number.png\" title=\"RFC 1149.5 specifies 4 as the standard IEEE-vetted random number.\" alt=\"int getRandomNumber() { return 4; \/\/chosen by fair dice roll. \/\/guaranteed to be random. }\"\/><\/p>\n<p><cite>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/\">XKCD<\/a><\/cite><\/p>\n<p>And a couple of classic random quotes<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.&#8221; John von Neumann<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.&#8221; Robert R. Coveyou<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to XKCD And a couple of classic random quotes &#8220;Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.&#8221; John von Neumann &#8220;The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.&#8221; Robert R. Coveyou<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2029,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/2029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}