• Random number generators are important in many kinds of technical applications, including physics, engineering or mathematical computer studies (e.g....
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    hardware random number generator (HRNG), true random number generator (TRNG), non-deterministic random bit generator (NRBG), or physical random number generator...
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    True random number generators can be hardware random-number generators (HRNGs), wherein each generation is a function of the current value of a physical...
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  • pseudorandom number generator (PRNG), also known as a deterministic random bit generator (DRBG), is an algorithm for generating a sequence of numbers whose...
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  • repeatable process. Pseudorandom number generators are often used in computer programming, as traditional sources of randomness available to humans (such as...
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    equal sequences of random numbers on simultaneously executing threads. There are several generators which are linear congruential generators in a different...
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    A random password generator is a software program or hardware device that takes input from a random or pseudo-random number generator and automatically...
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  • Congruential Random Numbergenerators are a robust family of pseudorandom number generators (PRNGs) for sequences of uniformly distributed pseudo-random numbers...
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  • Parallel Multiplicative Lagged-Fibonacci Generators, M. Mascagni, A. Srinivasan "Uniform random number generators for supercomputers", Richard Brent, 1992...
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  • testing for randomness. Many "random number generators" in use today are defined by algorithms, and so are actually pseudo-random number generators. The sequences...
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    random number is generated by a random (stochastic) process such as throwing dice. Individual numbers cannot be predicted, but the likely result of generating...
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  • Shrinking generator Stream cipher see also List of random number generators. Aliquot sequence and Aliquot sum dynamics Abundant number Almost perfect number Amicable...
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    Inversive congruential generators are a type of nonlinear congruential pseudorandom number generator, which use the modular multiplicative inverse (if...
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  • pseudorandom number generators, the resulting sequences are functions of the supplied seed values. An MWC generator is a special form of Lehmer random number generator...
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  • between randomization, pseudorandomization, and quasirandomization, as well as between random number generators and pseudorandom number generators. How much...
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  • quality of underlying sources of randomness in the implementation such as pseudorandom number generators or hardware random number generators. There are...
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  • selecting the random samples (with dice, cards, etc.). Nowadays, tables of random numbers have been replaced by computational random number generators. If carefully...
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    Xorshift (category Pseudorandom number generators)
    Xorshift random number generators, also called shift-register generators, are a class of pseudorandom number generators that were invented by George Marsaglia...
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  • established. For a given source, a randomness extractor can even be considered to be a true random number generator (TRNG); but there is no single extractor...
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  • of values based on the generalised golden ratio has been shown to produce more evenly distributed points. The list of pseudorandom number generators lists...
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  • of solving a problem. In common practice, randomized algorithms are approximated using a pseudorandom number generator in place of a true source of random...
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  • List of information graphics software List of probability topics List of random number generators List of scientific journals in statistics List of statistical...
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  • now most commonly used, both hardware random number generators and pseudo-random number generators. Randomization is used in optimization to alleviate...
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  • RDRAND (redirect from ARCH RANDOM)
    RDRAND (for "read random") is an instruction for returning random numbers from an Intel on-chip hardware random number generator which has been seeded...
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    used an algorithm to generate a random, top-down maze for each game. Some games used pseudorandom number generators. These PRNGs were often used with...
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  • Mersenne Twister (category Pseudorandom number generators)
    Retrieved 2016-08-02. "G05 – Random Number Generators". NAG Library Chapter Introduction. Retrieved 2012-05-29. "Random Number Generators". IBM SPSS Statistics...
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  • random number generator in some detail, in a whitepaper published in 2019. In Windows 10: There exists a hierarchy of random number generators. The kernel...
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    assumption of independence and randomness of each keystroke, the monkey would almost surely type every possible finite text an infinite number of times. The...
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  • Diehard tests (category Random number generation)
    The diehard tests are a battery of statistical tests for measuring the quality of a random number generator (RNG). They were developed by George Marsaglia...
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  • Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator) is an algorithm that was presented as a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator (CSPRNG) using methods...
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