Quick! Think of a number between 1 and 10…was it 7? If it was, don't feel too bad, as human brains are notoriously bad at both true randomness and understanding probability. Even if you're too ...

A new network paradigm can generate meaningfully random numbers ... at least one of the numbers. But prime numbers are predictable, and scientists push our growing list of primes into new ...

only the difference of a few milliseconds between keystrokes is enough to seed a random number generation routine with a different starting number each time. Once seeded, an algorithm computes ...

There are a great variety of ways to build a random number generator, and similarly many ways to generate numbers that appear random, but in a pure mathematical sense generally aren’t.

According to this post on the official V8 Javascript blog, the pseudo-random number generator (PRNG ... For the last six years, the algorithm that’s been used has been pretty horrible.