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:

    And catch the gleaming of a random light,
    That tells me that the ship I seek is passing, passing.
    Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)

    Even in ordinary speech we call a person unreasonable whose outlook is narrow, who is conscious of one thing only at a time, and who is consequently the prey of his own caprice, whilst we describe a person as reasonable whose outlook is comprehensive, who is capable of looking at more than one side of a question and of grasping a number of details as parts of a whole.
    G. Dawes Hicks (1862–1941)