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Definition of Pseudorandom
1. Adjective. Of a sequence of numbers, such that it has all the properties of a random sequence following some probability distribution (except true randomness), but is actually generated using a deterministic algorithm. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pseudorandom
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pseudorandom
Literary usage of Pseudorandom
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Developer's Workshopby John Clark Craig, Jeff Webb by John Clark Craig, Jeff Webb (1998)
"When you perform an exclusive-or operation on the bytes of a string using all
possible pseudorandom byte values, some of the resulting bytes will be tabs, ..."
2. SAS(R) 9.1.3 Language Reference:: Dictionary, Fifth Edition, Volumes 1-4 by SAS Institute (2006)
""The k-Distribution of Generalized Feedback Shift Register pseudorandom Numbers."
Communications of the ACM 26: 516-523. Gentle, JE 1998. ..."
3. Programming In Lua by Roberto Ierusalimschy (2003)
"When we call it without arguments, it returns a pseudorandom real number with
uniform distribution in the interval (0.1). When we call it with only one ..."
4. SAS/OR(R) 9.1.2 User's Guide:: Mathematical Programming by SAS Institute, SAS Publishing, Trevor Kearney, Virginia Clark, Donna Sawyer (2004)
"... a positive integer as a seed value for the pseudorandom number generator ...
pseudorandom numbers are used as the initial value x^°\ RESTART=i REST=z ..."
5. Technical Digest edited by G. W. Day, D. L. Franzen, P. A. Williams (1999)
"The all-states technique relies on pseudorandom sampling of all polarization
states with a total uncertainty that is proportionally reduced by increasing ..."
6. Overview of the Third Text Retrieval Conference (Trec-3) edited by D. K. Harmon (1996)
"Thirty-six (18 adhoc and 18 routing) topics were selected for additional relevance
assessments, using a pseudorandom selection based only on the number of ..."