Computer scientists have borrowed from the world of geology and crystals to help machines better generate random numbers. Here's how their method works.

In this paper, a new pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) based on improved one-dimensional discrete-space chaotic map is proposed. Like the original, the improved map relies on bijective mapping of ...

Using a single, chip-scale laser, scientists have managed to generate streams of completely random numbers at about 100 times the speed of the fastest random-numbers generator systems that are ...

Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 51, No. 184 (Oct., 1988), pp. 757-759 (3 pages) A nonlinear congruential pseudorandom number generator is studied where the modulus is a power of two. Investigation of ...