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unusual facts about random number generator



Casino game

Random number games are based upon the selection of random numbers, either from a computerized random number generator or from other gaming equipment.

TrueMoneyGames

TrueMoneyGames also implemented a hardware random number generator designed by the Swedish company Protego, which is based on quantum physics.


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Lehmer random number generator

The GNU Scientific Library includes several random number generators of the Lehmer form, including MINSTD, RANF, and the infamous IBM random number generator RANDU.

Random number generator attack

In November 2007, Leo Dorrendorf et al. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and University of Haifa published a paper titled Cryptanalysis of the Random Number Generator of the Windows Operating System.