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 … ...

Over the years, multiple studies have found that Google Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine was returning not-so-random numbers when you called the Math.random() function. Today that’s been fixed ...

Then use the last digit as your random number from 0 to 9,” but the original article says, “Choose a 2-digit number, say 23, your “seed”. Form a new 2-digit number: the 10’s digit plus 6 ...

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