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What sequence of numbers can I call as random number? What's the right way of getting $n$ random numbers?

Are the numbers generated by "dice", too known as random numbers? Can a machine (computer), simulate generation of random numbers like dice in real life?

Milind Hegde
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Vishwas
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    I suppose that you mean a fair dice. But there's nothing fair in life, not even dice and coins. – Asaf Karagila Jun 18 '13 at 14:55
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    @VishwasGagrani: Perhaps you can review my answer here: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/255610/easy-way-to-generate-random-numbers. It would help to know for what purpose you want these (simulation versus cryptography). Regards – Amzoti Jun 18 '13 at 15:17
  • Well, i was browsing through wikipedia, and seen various studies over random number generation. So, just curious, what is so difficult about random numbers. As in real life, it's just a matter of speaking out a number from mouth! – Vishwas Jun 18 '13 at 15:55
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    For some definitions try http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_sequence – Baby Dragon Jun 18 '13 at 16:16
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    It might be interesting to study "random" numbers out of people's mouths. Obviously, they won't be predictable but I would expect a huge bias towards easy to say numbers. Depending on your audience, you might get outliers such as googol, googolplex, and maybe even Graham's number. – badjohn Oct 19 '22 at 07:03

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