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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see random, number.
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A number allotted randomly using suitable generator (electronic machine or as simple "generator" as die).
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A number selected based on a uniform distribution, typically using a suitable generator (for example, rolling a die).
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Examples
- 1975, Gregory Chaitin, "Randomness and Mathematical Proof", Scientific American, (232), May 1975, pp. 47–52, reprinted in Information, Randomness & Incompleteness: Papers on Algorithmic Information Theory Tossing a coin is a classical procedure for producing a random number .... Tossing a coin 20 times can produce any one of 220 ... binary series, and each of them has exactly the same probability.
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A pseudorandom number.
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Across languages
Translations
26 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Catalan:
nombre aleatori
— number allotted randomly using a suitable generator
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Chinese Mandarin:
隨機數 /随机数
(suíjīshù)
— number allotted randomly using a suitable generator
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Chinese Mandarin:
亂數 /乱数
(luànshù)
— number allotted randomly using a suitable generator
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Czech:
náhodné číslo
— number allotted randomly using a suitable generator
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Finnish:
satunnaisluku
— number allotted randomly using a suitable generator
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French:
nombre aléatoire
— number allotted randomly using a suitable generator
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German:
Zufallszahl
— number allotted randomly using a suitable generator
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Hebrew:
מִסְפָּר אַקְרַאי
(mispar akrai)
— number allotted randomly using a suitable generator
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Hungarian:
véletlen szám
— number allotted randomly using a suitable generator
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Icelandic:
slembitala
— number allotted randomly using a suitable generator
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Icelandic:
hendingartala
— number allotted randomly using a suitable generator
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Indonesian:
angka acak
— number allotted randomly using a suitable generator
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Japanese:
乱数
(ransū)
— number allotted randomly using a suitable generator
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Korean:
난수
(nansu)
— number allotted randomly using a suitable generator
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Malay:
nombor rawak
— number allotted randomly using a suitable generator
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Māori:
tau matapōkere
— number allotted randomly using a suitable generator
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Māori:
tau tupurangi
— number allotted randomly using a suitable generator
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Polish:
liczba losowa
— number allotted randomly using a suitable generator
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Portuguese:
número aleatório
— number allotted randomly using a suitable generator
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Russian:
случа́йное число́
(slučájnoje čisló)
— number allotted randomly using a suitable generator
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Serbo-Croatian:
случајни број
— number allotted randomly using a suitable generator
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Serbo-Croatian:
slučajni broj
— number allotted randomly using a suitable generator
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Slovak:
náhodné číslo
— number allotted randomly using a suitable generator
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Spanish:
número aleatorio
— number allotted randomly using a suitable generator
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Swedish:
slumptal
— number allotted randomly using a suitable generator
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Ukrainian:
випадко́ве число́
(vypadkóve čysló)
— number allotted randomly using a suitable generator
