{"id":982,"date":"2015-06-26T15:45:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T20:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/?p=982"},"modified":"2015-06-26T15:50:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T20:50:20","slug":"how-did-i-not-know-about-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2015\/06\/26\/how-did-i-not-know-about-this\/","title":{"rendered":"How did I not know about this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been programming in IDL for a couple of decades. How did I not know about this bizarre behavior of its random number generator?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/files\/2015\/06\/Screenshot-2015-06-25-10.57.07.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"984\" height=\"585\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-983\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/files\/2015\/06\/Screenshot-2015-06-25-10.57.07.png\" alt=\"Screenshot 2015-06-25 10.57.07\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/files\/2015\/06\/Screenshot-2015-06-25-10.57.07.png 984w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/files\/2015\/06\/Screenshot-2015-06-25-10.57.07-300x178.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 984px) 100vw, 984px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, this is something<a href=\"http:\/\/www.idlcoyote.com\/code_tips\/randomnumbers.html\"> people know about<\/a>, but somehow I&#8217;d missed it for all this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been programming in IDL for a couple of decades. How did I not know about this bizarre behavior of its random number generator? &nbsp; Apparently, this is something people know about, but somehow I&#8217;d missed it for all this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}