On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:49:50 -0600, Mike Schwab wrote: >Wait 0.5 seconds and retry, 2 times, wait 0.4 seconds and retry, 3 >times, wait 0.3 seconds and retry, 4 times, wait 0.2 seconds and >retry, 6 times, wait 0.1 seconds and retry, ? times. > I suppose if you're doing this to avoid secondary collisions, you might try using a pseudo-random number, making sure your PRNGs don't run independently, but starting from the same seed. STCK might provide a seed adequate for this purpose, though not for cryptography.
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