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Re:How do computers generate random numbers? by Filligree on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @12:24PM (#28459375)
> Can't you say that any single (shortish) number is random? How you can demonstrate 99999999999999999999 isn't random?

You can not. Randomness is a property of the procedure used to generate it, not the number.

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