Random numbers are a precious commodity, whether expressed as strings of decimal digits or simply 1s and 0s. Computer scientist George Marsaglia of Florida State University, however, likes giving them ...

Random numbers are invaluable. They're used in the encryption that makes online banking secure. Economists, physicists, pollsters, and casinos rely on them. Yet until recently, producing large sets of ...

Since the introduction of "middle square" method by John von Neumann for the production of "pseudo-random" numbers in about 1949, hundreds of other methods have been introduced. While each may have ...