By piccoloprincipe
via sitepoint.com
Submitted: Feb 10 2012 / 04:16
Computers cannot generate random numbers. A machine which works in ones and zeros is unable to magically invent its own stream of random data. However, computers can implement mathematical algorithms which produce pseudo-random numbers. They look like random numbers. They feel like random distributions. But they’re fake; the same sequence of digits is generated if you run the algorithm twice.
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