It’s a ridiculously easy sequence to make, and yet it fooled programs designed to root out underlying order in seemingly random numbers. David Gawen Champernowne was born in 1912.

Microsoft Excel can do a lot of cool things. If you need it to generate random numbers, Susan Harkins can show you how.

Random numbers are used in several important technologies including cryptography and numerical simulation. However, large sequences of truly random numbers are notoriously difficult to generate – and ...

These don’t seem like “random” choices to us, because they embody some quality: small, big, distinctive. Instead, we often pick numbers ending in 7, generally from the middle somewhere.

A new approach to generating truly random numbers could lead to improved Internet security and better weather forecasts, according to researchers.