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Here's the problem: go ahead and ask a bunch of different people what they want/expect their shuffle/random button to do and you'll get a bunch of different answers. 1. I want it to play in a truly random fashion, with replacement (same song twice in a row is possible). 2. I want it to play in a truly random fashion, without replacement (each song is removed from the list once played). 3. I want it to "seem" random (…
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If I remember correctly, the encryption performed by the Enigma machine was cracked largely because they would never repeat the same character twice in a 3 letter key. The Allies discovered this and it was a big help in their code breaking efforts. My point being, even mathematicians might mistakenly believe that repeating a song or artist is less random. The creators of the Enigma machine were not dumb, but they bel…
I thought the weakness was that a character was never replaced by itself? Eg. HH (for Heil Hitler) could never be replaced with HH, no matter what the seed.
They did not allow a digit in the key to repeat in the same position 2 days in a row, I just reread. If the key was "123" yesterday, it could not be "145" today, because the first position was unchanged.