Generating a string of random numbers is easy. The hard part is proving that they’re random. As Dilbert creator Scott Adams once pointed out, “that’s the problem with randomness: you can ...

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To accomplish this goal, they selected a new spin-flipping algorithm developed by Ulli Wolff of the University of Kiel in Germany and a “subtract-with-borrow” random-number generator invented ...

April 26, 2005 Pi seems a good random number generator – but not always the best WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – If you wanted a random number, historically you could do worse than to pick a sequence from the ...

Although there are many ways to get a random number generator (RNG) set up on a microcontroller, it’s hard to argue with the sheer randomness of the various kinds of radiation zipping all aro… ...

And Javascript Which brings us to V8 Javascript’s Math.random(). For the last six years, the algorithm that’s been used has been pretty horrible.