Random Number

Random number may refer to:

  • A number generated for or part of a set exhibiting statistical randomness.
  • A random sequence obtained from a stochastic process.
  • An algorithmically random sequence in algorithmic information theory.
  • The output of a random number generator.


Famous quotes containing the words random and/or number:

    “poor Felix Randal;
    How far from then forethought of, all thy more boisterous years,
    When thou at the random grim forge, powerful amidst peers,
    Didst fettle for the great gray drayhorse his bright and battering
    sandal!”
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

    “In the U.S. for instance, the value of a homemaker’s productive work has been imputed mostly when she was maimed or killed and insurance companies and/or the courts had to calculate the amount to pay her family in damages. Even at that, the rates were mostly pink collar and the big number was attributed to the husband’s pain and suffering.”
    —Gloria Steinem (20th century)