随机数生成
随机数生成器(Random number generator)是通过一些算法、物理讯号、环境噪音等来产生看起来似乎没有关联性的数列的方法或装置。丢硬币、丢骰子、洗牌就是生活上常见的随机数产生方式。
另见
进阶阅读
- Donald Knuth. Chapter 3 – Random Numbers. The Art of Computer Programming. Vol. 2: Seminumerical algorithms 3. 1997.
- Kroese, D. P.; Taimre, T.; Botev, Z.I. Chapter 1 - Uniform Random Number Generation. Handbook of Monte Carlo Methods. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 2011: 772. ISBN 0-470-17793-4.
- Press, WH; Teukolsky, SA; Vetterling, WT; Flannery, BP. Chapter 7. Random Numbers. Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing 3rd. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2007 [2012-12-29]. ISBN 978-0-521-88068-8. (原始内容存档于2011-08-11).
- NIST SP800-90A, B, C series on random number generation (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)