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 ...

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 ...

“This is a marvelous step” toward more efficient random number generation, says Rajarshi Roy, a physicist at the University of Maryland in College Park who was not involved in the work. Random number ...