[Labs-l] Down to the millisecond

[Huji Lee]

​Nevermind. I just realized we have a {{Rand}} template :)

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 6:14 PM, Huji Lee <huji.huji at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do we store any information in the MW tables down to the millisecond? I
> want to generate some pseudorandom numbers and I want to use the rightmost
> digit of a timestamp for that reason but I want to make sure it is not
> feasible to game the system, so timestamps that are only down to the second
> are not going to cut it.
>
> Other ideas about how to generate pseudorandom numbers using MW data are
> welcome.
>
> PS: I wish we had a rand parse function.
>
> Huji
>
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