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

pseudoprime
pseudoprimes
pseudoprofession
pseudoprofessions
pseudoprofound
pseudoproper
pseudoprostyle
pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism
pseudopupa
pseudopupae
pseudoquantitative
pseudoracemate
pseudoracemates
pseudoradical
pseudoradicals
pseudorandom (current term)
pseudorandom number generator
pseudorandom number generators
pseudorandomization
pseudorandomly
pseudorandomness
pseudorapidities
pseudorapidity
pseudorealism
pseudorecombination
pseudorecombinations
pseudorecombined
pseudoreference
pseudorelational
pseudoreligion

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 ..."

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