Generating different randoms valid for a day on different independent devices?
- by Pentium10
Let me describe the system. There are several mobile devices, each independent from each other, and they are generating content for the same record id.
I want to avoid generating the same content for the same record on different devices, for this I though I would use a random and make it so too cluster the content pool based on these randoms.
Suppose you have choices from 1 to 100.
Day 1
Device#1 will choose for the record#33 between 1-10
Device#2 will choose for the record#33 between 40-50
Device#3 will choose for the record#33 between 50-60
Device#1 will choose for the record#55 between 40-50
Device#2 will choose for the record#55 between 1-10
Device#3 will choose for the record#55 between 10-20
Device#1 will choose for the record#11 between 1-10
Device#2 will choose for the record#22 between 1-10
Device#3 will choose for the record#99 between 1-10
Day 2
Device#1 will choose for the record#33 between 90-100
Device#2 will choose for the record#33 between 1-10
Device#3 will choose for the record#33 between 50-60
They don't have access to a central server.
Data available for each of them:
IMEI (unique per mobile)
Date of today (same on all devices)
Record id (same on all devices)
What do you think, how is it possible?
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