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From: hagins@gamecock.rtp.dg.com (Jody Hagins)
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Subject: Re: "1234" ==> 1234 (char * ==> int)
Keywords: obnoxious
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Date: 17 Dec 90 20:07:01 GMT
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In article <5372@rossignol.Princeton.EDU>, nfs@hart.Princeton.EDU (Norbert Schlenker) writes:
|> In article <1990Dec12.215359.5378@cs.utk.edu> lape@.cs.utk.edu (Bryon S. Lape) writes:
|> >	I need to know how to convert a string of numbers into an int.
|> >For example, "1234" ==> 1234.  I am interested in all theories, so please
|> >send whatever you know or think.  Also, please e-mail the responses.
|> 
|> Here's a theory of conversion a couple of us thought up while playing
|> bridge the other night.  Take the outputs from your system standard
|> random number generator, convert them to a string, and compare them to
|> the input string.  If the strings don't match, try another random number.
|> If your random number generator is full period and the input string is
|> in range and in canonical form, this approach is guaranteed to succeed.


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One of the best responses of the decade.
Couldn't stop laughing.
Now I have to go to the bathroom...


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