为什么这段代码使用随机字符串打印"hello world"？

Question

The following print statement would print "hello world". Could anyone explain this?System.out.println(randomString(-229985452) + " " + randomString(-147909649));And randomString() looks like this:public static String randomString(int i) {     Random ran = new Random(i);     StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();     while (true)     {         int k = ran.nextInt(27);         if (k == 0)             break;         sb.append((char)('`' + k));     }     return sb.toString(); }转载于:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15182496/why-does-this-code-using-random-strings-print-hello-world

Answer 1

When an instance of java.util.Random is constructed with a specific seed parameter (in this case -229985452 or -147909649), it follows the random number generation algorithm beginning with that seed value.

Every Random constructed with the same seed will generate the same pattern of numbers every time.

Answer 2

The other answers explain why, but here is how.

Given an instance of Random:

Random r = new Random(-229985452)

The first 6 numbers that r.nextInt(27) generates are:

8
5
12
12
15
0

and the first 6 numbers that r.nextInt(27) generates given Random r = new Random(-147909649) are:

23
15
18
12
4
0

Then just add those numbers to the integer representation of the character ` (which is 96):

8  + 96 = 104 --> h
5  + 96 = 101 --> e
12 + 96 = 108 --> l
12 + 96 = 108 --> l
15 + 96 = 111 --> o

23 + 96 = 119 --> w
15 + 96 = 111 --> o
18 + 96 = 114 --> r
12 + 96 = 108 --> l
4  + 96 = 100 --> d

Answer 3

I'll just leave it here. Whoever has a lot of (CPU) time to spare, feel free to experiment :) Also, if you have mastered some fork-join-fu to make this thing burn all CPU cores (just threads are boring, right?), please share your code. I would greatly appreciate it.

public static void main(String[] args) {
    long time = System.currentTimeMillis();
    generate("stack");
    generate("over");
    generate("flow");
    generate("rulez");

    System.out.println("Took " + (System.currentTimeMillis() - time) + " ms");
}

private static void generate(String goal) {
    long[] seed = generateSeed(goal, Long.MIN_VALUE, Long.MAX_VALUE);
    System.out.println(seed[0]);
    System.out.println(randomString(seed[0], (char) seed[1]));
}

public static long[] generateSeed(String goal, long start, long finish) {
    char[] input = goal.toCharArray();
    char[] pool = new char[input.length];
    label:
    for (long seed = start; seed < finish; seed++) {
        Random random = new Random(seed);

        for (int i = 0; i < input.length; i++)
            pool[i] = (char) random.nextInt(27);

        if (random.nextInt(27) == 0) {
            int base = input[0] - pool[0];
            for (int i = 1; i < input.length; i++) {
                if (input[i] - pool[i] != base)
                    continue label;
            }
            return new long[]{seed, base};
        }

    }

    throw new NoSuchElementException("Sorry :/");
}

public static String randomString(long i, char base) {
    System.out.println("Using base: '" + base + "'");
    Random ran = new Random(i);
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    for (int n = 0; ; n++) {
        int k = ran.nextInt(27);
        if (k == 0)
            break;

        sb.append((char) (base + k));
    }

    return sb.toString();
}

Output:

-9223372036808280701
Using base: 'Z'
stack
-9223372036853943469
Using base: 'b'
over
-9223372036852834412
Using base: 'e'
flow
-9223372036838149518
Using base: 'd'
rulez
Took 7087 ms