According to this post on the official V8 Javascript blog, the pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) that V8 Javascript uses in Math.random() is horribly flawed and getting replaced with something … ...

Ask Google to generate a random number As with most Google searches, you can either first head to Google’s website or make sure your web browser’s URL bar is set to use the Google search engine.

Many languages feature a random number generator library for help with tasks like rolling a die or flipping a coin. Why, you may ask, is this necessary when humans are perfectly capable of randomly… ...

Very little in this life is truly random. A coin flip is influenced by the flipper’s force, its surrounding airflow, and gravity. Similar variables dictate rolling a pair of dice or shuffling a deck ...

Modern cryptology algorithms rely on inputs of random numbers—if the numbers aren’t truly random, the encryption get easier to crack.