Here's a question from my other thread (about genetic algorithms) that I've taken the liberty of reposting in order to reach a wider audience (because this doesn't require any knowledge of genetic ...

We think of random numbers as being somehow arbitrary and unknowable in advance. Mathematically, a given string of numbers is random if there is no shorter way to express the string than the string ...

I want to generate random numbers with a certain maximum, minimum, median and mean. For instance, I might want numbers between 3 and 20, with a median of 6 and a mean of 8.5. Is there a commonly used ...