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tonyblair
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Wed Dec-29-04 07:24 PM
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I am not a mathematician (I am a graduate of English law) but on another thread someone mentioned that some of * percentages were very close to the golden mean. So I did a little experimenting with dividing one Fibonacci (sp?) number by the next and got 34/55 = 0.6181818 etc. Now where have we seen 18181 before? I might hypothesise (and let me be the first to say I may be spouting crap) that there is some difficulty using truly random numbers. Perhaps MS Access doesn't have an easy-to-use RN generator, I don't know. So the hacker is chopping up bits of easily programmable, "random looking" number sequences.
Just my 2c worth.
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