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The math of shuffling cards almost brought down an online poker empire

(www.scientificamerican.com)
97 points indigodaddy | 1 comments | 05 Sep 25 22:50 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ajross ◴[07 Sep 25 01:57 UTC] No.45154693[source]▶
Article goes through a mostly irrelevant discussion about "52 factorial is a really really big number" before getting to the computer science meat of the headline:

RNG was seeded with a millisecond time of day, leading to 86.4M possible decks. Oooph.

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1. sejje ◴[07 Sep 25 02:04 UTC] No.45154722[source]▶
It didn't even go into the fact that it got exploited, which it did.

And I don't think it almost brought them down.