tour: not deterministic rand number as noted in the tour description #1448
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I think this is the 1.20 change that "automatically seeds the global random number generator" Probably just remove the last two paragraphs on that page, "Note: ..." and the parenthetical after that. |
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With go 1.20 "math/rand package now automatically seeds the global random number generator" (https://go.dev/doc/go1.20#math/rand) and we do not need the appengine specific note that the Go Playground environment for the tour programs is deterministic. As the note is specific to the appengine version (i.e. it is already not shown in the Go offline tour) it should be fine to just remove the text. Fixes golang/tour#1448
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Context: https://go.dev/tour/basics/1
In the section
package, there isNote: The environment in which these programs are executed is deterministic, so each time you run the example program rand.Intn will return the same number.in the description. However, I got different numbers run the example program every time.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: