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  2. List of random number generators - Wikipedia

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    Widely used in many programs, e.g. it is used in Excel 2003 and later versions for the Excel function RAND [8] and it was the default generator in the language Python up to version 2.2. [9] Rule 30: 1983 S. Wolfram [10] Based on cellular automata. Inversive congruential generator (ICG) 1986 J. Eichenauer and J. Lehn [11] Blum Blum Shub: 1986

  3. Pseudorandom number generator - Wikipedia

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    For example, in a massively parallel application, each thread or GPU core can be assigned a range of counter values and compute random numbers without synchronization or shared state. Since the generator does not require stepping through every intermediate state, it can “jump” to any point in the sequence in constant time.

  4. Random number generation - Wikipedia

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    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 is generated that cannot be reasonably predicted better than by random chance.

  5. Python syntax and semantics - Wikipedia

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    A snippet of Python code with keywords highlighted in bold yellow font. The syntax of the Python programming language is the set of rules that defines how a Python program will be written and interpreted (by both the runtime system and by human readers). The Python language has many similarities to Perl, C, and Java. However, there are some ...

  6. Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator

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    In the asymptotic setting, a family of deterministic polynomial time computable functions : {,} {,} for some polynomial p, is a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG, or PRG in some references), if it stretches the length of its input (() > for any k), and if its output is computationally indistinguishable from true randomness, i.e. for any probabilistic polynomial time algorithm A, which ...

  7. Linear congruential generator - Wikipedia

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    Unfortunately, most programming languages make the latter much easier to write (X % r), so it is very commonly used. The generator is not sensitive to the choice of c , as long as it is relatively prime to the modulus (e.g. if m is a power of 2, then c must be odd), so the value c =1 is commonly chosen.

  8. Range coding - Wikipedia

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    Suppose we want to encode the message "AABA<EOM>", where <EOM> is the end-of-message symbol. For this example it is assumed that the decoder knows that we intend to encode exactly five symbols in the base 10 number system (allowing for 10 5 different combinations of symbols with the range [0, 100000)) using the probability distribution {A: .60; B: .20; <EOM>: .20}.

  9. Mersenne Twister - Wikipedia

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    The 'Extract number' section shows an example where integer 0 has already been output and the index is at integer 1. 'Generate numbers' is run when all integers have been output. For a w -bit word length, the Mersenne Twister generates integers in the range [ 0 , 2 w − 1 ] {\displaystyle [0,2^{w}-1]} .