Random number generation is a key part of cybersecurity and encryption, and it is applied to many apps used in everyday life, both for business and leisure. These numbers help create unique keys, ...

To pick a random name from an Excel table using a method that works across every version of Excel, this classic combination ...

The new method takes two weakly random sequences of numbers and turns them into one sequence of truly random numbers. New York: Computer scientists, including an Indian-origin student at the ...

To simulate chance occurrences, a computer can’t literally toss a coin or roll a die. Instead, it relies on special numerical recipes for generating strings of shuffled digits that pass for random ...

With an advance that one cryptography expert called a "masterpiece," University of Texas at Austin computer scientists have developed a new method for producing truly random numbers, a breakthrough ...