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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Why can’t you use the script language’s native number generator?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Cyberpower678<br>English Wikipedia Account Creation Team<br>ACC Mailing List Moderator<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Global User Renamer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Labs-l [mailto:labs-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Huji Lee<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 26, 2016 6:19 PM<br><b>To:</b> Labs <labs-l@lists.wikimedia.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Labs-l] Down to the millisecond<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Actually no, turns out Rand also uses seconds (not milliseconds) and can be gamed.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Sorry, will stop spamming now. Please advise!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 6:17 PM, Huji Lee <<a href="mailto:huji.huji@gmail.com" target="_blank">huji.huji@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Nevermind. I just realized we have a {{Rand}} template :)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 6:14 PM, Huji Lee <<a href="mailto:huji.huji@gmail.com" target="_blank">huji.huji@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Other ideas about how to generate pseudorandom numbers using MW data are welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>PS: I wish we had a rand parse function.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Huji<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>