Quote Originally Posted by JayCommon View Post
TL;DR = Math is fun! And also very misleading...
I'm pretty well versed in math but I don't really get what you're driving at here.



If you want to use strict definitions the numbers generated by a RNG aren't actually random anyway. They are pseudo-random because they need a seed number which is usually some combination of internal states like time/temp.

This doesn't mean that modern RNGs are crap though. Many are able to generate an almost perfectly uniform distribution. The level of 'randomness' is robust enough for massive physics computations in fields like magnetohydrodynamics.


I can't explain a result like 14 consecutive failures with a ~93% chance to succeed though. They undoubtedly use a generator like the Mersenne Twister which is more than good enough for our purposes. I guess maybe if they used a terrible RNG, and they used a client side seed, and your computer was a potato with a broken clock it could happen.