Comments by "Chaos Corner" (@chaos.corner) on "The Riddle That Seems Impossible Even If You Know The Answer" video.

  1. This reminds me of an issue I considered with the RNG in Microsoft SQL server. It's (was) a fairly small number of bits and each random number is generated from the previous one. This leads to the potential scenario of a very small loop of random numbers. I meant to test it out but never found the time. The company I worked for had a routine that they designed to try and make it better but it actually didn't improve things at all (had a big argument about that).
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  2. Well, I think we have the sequel for Squid Game sorted.
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  3.  @fatalityin1  That was my concern. It wasn't really used for security but it was used for unique identifiers so they would obviously be not-so-unique.
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  4. In facr, the boxes don't even need to be numbered as the prisoners could agree on their own natural numbering scheme. This seems like a variation on the old apparent paradox of "One of my children is a boy, what are the odds I have two boys?" giving a different answer to "My eldest child is a boy, what are the odds I have two boys?"
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