(24-04-2025, 12:34 PM)nablator wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.There is a huge number of possible permutations of folios (factorial of the number of folios). Finding a seed that would result in a specific pattern by chance (or even billions of test) is extraordinary.
If I understand it correctly, it's not looking for a specific pattern, it's looking for any suitable cyclic pattern, the number of which is only marginally smaller than the total number of folio permutations.
Also, given the (pseudo-)random way the seed affects the results, the fact that the magic seed in question is 1405 (and not, say, 3452435431), also speaks somewhat about the actual number of permutations tested.
Maybe there is more in the article, but so far personally to me this doesn't look very promising.
Anyway, thanks to Urtx13 for sharing!