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math/rand: Documentation glitch for package math/rand #23363

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vikramdurai opened this issue Jan 7, 2018 · 1 comment
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math/rand: Documentation glitch for package math/rand #23363

vikramdurai opened this issue Jan 7, 2018 · 1 comment

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@vikramdurai
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Please answer these questions before submitting your issue. Thanks!

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

go1.9.2

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

I'm not sure.

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

I don't know.

What did you do?

I ran the first example.
https://play.golang.org/p/nMDQEAaAnuX

What did you expect to see?

I expected the first example to produce random answers.

What did you see instead?

One answer ("As I see it yes") kept coming again and again.

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bradfitz commented Jan 7, 2018

This is working as intended. It's a pseudorandom number generator package. Given the same seed, it'll produce the same output. Use crypto/rand for actual randomness. But note that the playground caches runs, so you can't see randomness on the playground..

@bradfitz bradfitz closed this as completed Jan 7, 2018
@mikioh mikioh changed the title Documentation glitch for package math/rand math/rand: Documentation glitch for package math/rand Jan 13, 2018
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