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<?php error_reporting(-1); set_time_limit(0); generate_nice('php'); function generate_nice($word) { echo 'Word: ', $word, "\n"; $i = generate($word); echo 'Seed: ', $i, "\n"; echo 'Test: ', test($i, strlen($word)), "\n"; } function generate($word) { $l = strlen($word); $s = ''; for ($i = 0; $s !== $word; ++$i) { $s = ''; srand($i); for ($j = 0; $j < $l; ++$j) { $s .= chr(96 + rand(1, 26)); } } return $i - 1; } function test($i, $l) { $s = ''; srand($i); for ($j = 0; $j < $l; ++$j) { $s .= chr(96 + rand(1, 26)); } return $s; }

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