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Alexander F Rødseth
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# Not So Random
Go's `rand` package makes it easy to generate all sorts of random numbers.
What they don't tell you though is that the default seed is `1`. So if you
write a program like so:
Go's `rand` package makes it easy to generate all sorts of pseudo-random numbers.
What they don't tell you though is that the default seed is `1`. They [do tell you that the numbers are pseud-random and that you need to use the Seed function to initialize the default source if different behavior is required for each run](https://golang.org/pkg/math/rand/), though. So if you write a program like so:
```go
package main