Random number generation
Random number generation 19 languages Article Talk Read Edit View history From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Random number generation" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( June 2009 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ) Dice are an example of a mechanical hardware random number generator. When a cubical die is rolled, a random number from 1 to 6 is obtained. Random number generation is a process by which, often by means of a random number generator ( RNG ), a sequence of numbers or symbols that cannot be reasonably predicted better than by random chance is generated. This...