Why am I getting the same results when using random numbers in a loop?
Why do I get the same result with rand() every time I compile and run?
Prison problem: locking or unlocking every $n$th door for $ n=1,2,3,...$ Using Fingerprint reader in 16.04 I have a Dell laptop with fingerprint reader inbuilt. I just ran lsusb on terminal and got the following result:   Bus 002 Device 003: ID 138a:0011 Validity Sensors, Inc. VFS5011 Fingerprint Reader Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c077 Logitech, Inc. M105 Optical Mouse Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 004: ID 05ca:1820 Ricoh Co., Ltd Integrated Webcam Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0a5c:21bc Broadcom Corp. BCM2070 Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub   Is it possible to use fingerprint scanning instead of traditional login with 16.04 and Unity ? Thanks. Have men and women in the Wizarding World always had relatively equal rights? There are racial struggles and examples of racism, (Muggle-borns, centaurs, hous-elves, goblins, etc.) but are there any examples in the Wizarding World of sexism?  Have witches and wizards always had equal rights? align xticks in PGFPlots I know that \: in LaTeX produces a space when rendered.  Are there any alternatives, because my LaTeX renderer doesn't support \: (it renders it as text), and there is no help / FAQ that I can find. How to get a JavaScript object's class? Is there a term for this word play where a song intentionally avoids completing a rhyme? Take this for example:  In this , at 1:04 to 1:10, the person goes on rapping with a rhyming word at the end of each line, but he pauses before the end of the last word and, being humans, we predict the next word (due to the hint from the rhyme) that he is going to say but he avoids it intentionally. Is there a word or phrase for this word play?     ...and the beat still knocks when I sort my socks   I'm five foot eleven of sex   from the tip of my head to my gorgeous...   knees    Not the best example I could find but I think it sums up my point quite well. Every affine variety in $\mathbb A^n$ consisting of finitely many points can be written as the zero locus of $n$ polynomials I am reading Gathmann's free online notes on Algebraic Geometry. One exercise asks to show that     "Every affine variety in $\mathbb A^n$ consisting of finitely many points can be written as the zero locus of $n$ polynomials".    There is a hint says "interpolation". I don't know how to start with the hint.   If $n=2$, we can use interpolation to get 1 polynomial for finitely many points. But we need to show 2 polynomials instead. I am also not sure how to apply interpolation for higher dimensions. Anyone can help? Thank you! subsurf splits the mirrored model into two objects I tried to subsurf this model that I mirrored but when I use subsurf it splits the model into two objects.  Before Subsurf:   After Subsurf:   Any help would be appreciated. Is it acceptable to begin a declarative sentence with "Am"? I want to know firstly if it's grammatically correct to start a declarative sentence with "Am". For example:     Am excited about the game today.   Secondly, if it is grammatically incorrect, then I wanted to ask how much "head room" there is for the above usage. I can't think of an example now, nor find one here at english.stackexchange. However I imagine there are usages of the english language that grammatically are illegal, yet have somehow become accepted as colloquial or idiomatic perhaps. Hi Blender coders and artists.  I am updating one of my add-ons for Blender 2.8 and have run into some  issues finding the appropriate way to hide a collection that is added to my scene.  I want to deselect the eyeball on the toolbar with a python command in a script but I don't want to disable the collection in the view-port entirely as it is used as a collection in a particle system.   I just want to deselect the eyeball circled in green below.  Anyone know the python API for this? When creating presentations in , those little symbols that you can click on and will take you to different parts of your presentation are automatically included on your slides.  I don't like that, but decided not to try and change it for now. The problem is that when I gave my presentation to my supervisor to revise, the first thing he did was cross the symbols out in red, meaning: take this out!  What should I do? Is there an easy command to get rid of those symbols or do I have to change the theme of my presentation to get rid of the symbols? algebraic element over a field Let $F$ be a subfield of a field $K$, $a$ an element of $K$.  Prove that $a$ is algebraic over $F$ iff $F[a]=F(a)$.  For the first direction I've tried this: $a$ is algebraic over $F$ $\Rightarrow$ there is a polynomail $f$ over $F$ such that $f(a)=0$ $\Rightarrow$ $1,a,a^2,...,a^m$ are linearly dependent $\Rightarrow$ $\deg(F[a])&lt;m$.    but it contains $f(a)$ so they are equal..  is that correct? about the other direction.. i simply have no clue A ring $R$ is a Boolean ring provided that $a^2=a$ for every $a \in R$. How can we show that every Boolean ring is commutative? Errors "*ERROR* UVD not responding, trying to reset the VCPU!!!" What is so called meta-game in StarCraft 2?    What other games have this meta-game? Getting around the FAT32 4GB file size limit What word would describe someone who doesn't generally leave much of an impression on people? Is there an easy way to limit user bandwidth usage? Let us view our deleted comments