43 thoughts on “ A 4-bit Random Number Generator ” Art Mezins says: ... than the binary input. ... “Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random.”—Donald Knuth ...

Because computers don't understand words or phrases in the same way people can, they speak a language of their own, using only two symbols: 0 and 1. This computing parlance is known as binary code ...

Computers can't generate random numbers, so how do they? ... Pokmon Stadium 2, the Generation III and Generation IV core series games, and Pokmon Colosseum use a 32-bit linear congruential generator.

Using a single, chip-scale laser, scientists have managed to generate streams of completely random numbers at about 100 times the speed of the fastest random-numbers generator systems that are ...

Assigning “1” for heads and “0” for tails, we generate a random sequence of binary digits or bits. Ten tosses might produce a sequence such as 1001110100.