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Pseudorandomness

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What does pseudorandomness mean?

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what are pseudorandom numbers

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Vector Education: Randomness versus Pseudorandomness

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Pseudorandomness Meaning

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Pseudorandomness

A pseudorandom process is a process that appears to be random but is not. Pseudorandom sequences typically exhibit statistical randomness while being generated by an entirely deterministic causal process. Such a process is easier to produce than a genuinely random one, and has the benefit that it can be used again and again to produce exactly the same numbers, which is useful for testing and fixing software.