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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Random Number God</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../R.html" title="R"/><link rel="previous" href="random.html" title="random"/><link rel="next" href="random-numbers.html" title="random numbers"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Random Number God</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="random.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">R</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="random-numbers.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Random-Number-God"/><dt xmlns="" id="Random-Number-God"><b>Random Number God</b></dt></dt><dd><p> [rec.games.roguelike.angband; often abbreviated ‘RNG’]
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The malign force which lurks behind the random number generator in
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<a href="../A/Angband.html"><i class="glossterm">Angband</i></a> (and by extension elsewhere). A dark god
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that demands sacrifices and toys with its victims. “<span class="quote">I just found a
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really great item; I suppose the RNG is about to punish me...</span>”
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Apparently, Angband's random number generator occasionally gets locked in a
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repetition, so you get something with a 3% chance happening 8 times in a
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row. Improbable, but far too common to be pure chance. Compare
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<a href="../S/Shub-Internet.html"><i class="glossterm">Shub-Internet</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="random.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="random-numbers.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">random </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> random numbers</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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