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A '''random seed''' was used by a [[Randomiser]] to calculate [[algorithm]]ic impossibilities. | A '''random seed''' was used by a [[Randomiser]] to calculate [[algorithm]]ic impossibilities. | ||
When the [[Time Lord]]s caught up with [[Compassion]] after learning the original code, the [[Eighth Doctor]] attempted to evade them again by using [[8.23 (number)|8.23]] as his new seed code based on a bad experience his companion [[Fitz Kreiner]] had with [[wasp]]s as a child - he was stung twenty-three times after finding a nest when he was eight - reasoning that it was a number the Time Lords couldn't predict based on their [[knowledge]] of him and noting that the seed code simply had to be [[Randomness|random]] rather than complex. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell]]'') | When the [[Time Lord]]s caught up with [[Compassion]] after learning the original code, the [[Eighth Doctor]] attempted to evade them again by using [[8.23 (number)|8.23]] as his new seed code based on a bad experience his companion [[Fitz Kreiner]] had with [[wasp]]s as a child - he was stung twenty-three times after finding a nest when he was eight - reasoning that it was a number the Time Lords couldn't predict based on their [[knowledge]] of him and noting that the seed code simply had to be [[Randomness|random]] rather than complex. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'') | ||
[[Category:Computer science]] | [[Category:Computer science]] | ||
[[Category:Mathematics from the real world]] | [[Category:Mathematics from the real world]] | ||
