If you need a random number.

[Inquisitor]

Don't random number generators actually use the digits of pi? Or do random number generators actually exist where they don't have to use a string of numbers which it knows to be random.

The digits of pi aren't random in the slightest – they're completely determinate They roughly follow a uniform distribution, but that in itself doesn't provide a source of randomness.

Pseudo-random number generators work by using chaotic algorithms with arbitrary seed values. This provides statistical randomness, but ultimately can be predictable, which is why more secure methods are needed for cryptographic applications, for example.

 

[muon]

The digits of pi aren't random in the slightest – they're completely determinate The digits of pi roughly follow a uniform distribution, but that doesn't provide a source of randomness.

Pseudo-random number generators work by using chaotic algorithms with an arbitrary seed value, which provides statistically random results.

Yeh you're right, I just thought about it. Don't know what I was thinking. Time for sleep me thinks.

 

[Steve2000]

 

[Greenlizard0]

38! I wonder what it means...

 

[Neoni]

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