It may come as a surprise that despite the power our computers have, they can't achieve true randomness. In fact, they rely ...

What they have created is an algorithm which ensures that seemingly random numbers really are as random as they look.

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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 … ...

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 ...

There are currently two main methods for generating random numbers. In the first, a computer picks numbers according to an algorithm or from a pre-generated list. This method, while fast and not ...

From jury duty to tax audits, randomness plays a big role. Scientists used quantum physics to build a system that ensures those number draws can’t be gamed.

To produce numbers, many of these RNGs use an algorithm – a short set of instructions that can be repeated quickly – and it is the quality of the algorithm that makes one RNG more valuable than ...

Here's a question from my other thread (about genetic algorithms) that I've taken the liberty of reposting in order to reach a wider audience (because this doesn't require any knowledge of genetic ...