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		montecarl on Feb 26, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to safely generate a random number If you want fast non-secure random numbers use Mersenne Twister: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_twister

SamReidHughes2 on Feb 27, 2014 [–]

You can also get much faster secure random numbers.

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