2006-08-10 08:08:53 · 9 answers · asked by deankwon 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
Haha ;-) But seriously, it doesn't pick a "random" number, you are right, it uses an algorithm to generate a list of seemingly random numbers (a rather simple one to). But what it the universe is truely random? Does "true" random even exist? Unlikely.
2006-08-10 08:13:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is quite possible you do not have free will either, but it does not matter.
The numbers are "for all useful purposes" random - you cannot predict them and neither can anyone else without considerable knowledge of the generator and two (or often many more) adjacent states.
Think of it as the perfect counterfeit - if you can always spend it, it is the real thing. If an all applications where you use the computer's random number generator and it works - it is random enough to be indistiguishable from a "real" random number.
Even if you construct a mechanism that uses Brownian motion to generate random numbers, that just takes things up a notch without changing the fundamentals.
You can find a long discussion on this in Daniel Dennet's book "Freedom Evolves".
2006-08-10 08:24:18 · answer #2 · answered by sheeple_rancher 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not purely random, it's generated by some means that for the most part can't be predicted. Most random number generators need a 'seed'. If you know the algorithm of the generator and the seed then the series of numbers is very predictable.
SO... the trick is to come up with a seed that can't be predicted... some easy-to-use ones would be air temperature, ambient noise and miliseconds since Jan. 1, 1970.
2006-08-10 08:13:08 · answer #3 · answered by scruffy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When your name is put into a computer it is assigned a number.... the computer program is set to loop whatever times, could be a small amount of times to loop or many times on the numbers, then it stops after the number of loops that was assigned it. Then that number looks at the person related to it.
Example... I want the computer to loop on the numbers in the file 10 times or 250 times or 1000 times then stop on that number.
This information can be printed or view on the computer monitor.
That was a good question.
The "O" Wise One has spoken
2006-08-10 08:25:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In fact if you run a program to pick 100 random numbers and then rerun that program again it will pick the same random numbers each time unless you change the "seed" number each time.
2006-08-10 08:15:29 · answer #5 · answered by rscanner 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-23 19:41:12 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you are answering your self the computer do not pick a number by his own will the picking is based on a program designed by human and according to a certain equation the computer choice a number that's all..................
2006-08-10 08:16:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How can a totally logical machine like a computer generate a random number? - http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question697.htm
2006-08-10 08:15:21 · answer #8 · answered by PureVision 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rand number usually depends on algorithms and time
2006-08-10 08:14:27 · answer #9 · answered by sid_avatar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋