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# Machine games

Published 2026-08-19

## [Random number generators and what the word random is doing](https://velagamingprime.com/archives/2007/04/what_random_means.html)

Posted 5 April 2007 at 21:02

The word random is doing two jobs at once in most conversations about machine games. One job is mathematical and precise. The other is a feeling about unpredictability, and the two do not always agree.

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