random number

Noun

 * 1) A number allotted randomly using suitable generator (electronic machine or as simple "generator" as die).
 * 2) A number selected based on a uniform distribution, typically using a suitable generator (for example, rolling a die).
 * 3) * 1975,, "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.
 * 1) A pseudorandom number.
 * 2) * 1970, (attributed)
 * The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
 * 1) A pseudorandom number.
 * 2) * 1970, (attributed)
 * The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

Usage notes

 * Context allows for non-uniform distributions, especially in technical applications. But if the underlying generation was expected to be uniform but was not (dice were loaded, lottery machine balls were weighted, or data satisfying was inappropriately used) the results are considered "non-random", even though mathematically, they were merely selected using a different distribution.

Translations

 * Catalan: nombre aleatori
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: náhodné číslo
 * Finnish:
 * French: nombre aléatoire
 * German: Zufallszahl
 * Hebrew: מִסְפָּר אַקְרַאי
 * Hungarian: véletlen szám
 * Icelandic: slembitala, hendingartala
 * Indonesian: angka acak
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 난수
 * Malay: nombor rawak
 * Maori: tau matapōkere, tau tupurangi
 * Polish: liczba losowa
 * Portuguese: número aleatório
 * Russian: случа́йное число́
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: случајни број
 * Roman: slučajni broj
 * Slovak: náhodné číslo
 * Spanish: número aleatorio
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: випадко́ве число́