Random number generation

Quality:

Random number generation - the process of generating a sequence of numbers or symbols that can not be reasonably predicted better than by random chance. Article "Random number generation" in English Wikipedia has 54.6 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 36 references and 17 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

In July 2024 the article "Random number generation" was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Random number generation", its content was written by 432 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 678 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 920 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1301 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #120 in January 2004
• Global: #1310 in January 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #6747 in December 2019
• Global: #16976 in December 2019

There are 19 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from August 1, 2024 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Random number generation		54.6407
2	French (fr) Générateur de nombres aléatoires		32.2059
3	Serbian (sr) Generisanje slučajnih brojeva		27.6697
4	Persian (fa) تولید اعداد تصادفی		21.9318
5	Czech (cs) Generátor náhodných čísel		18.8551
6	Arabic (ar) توليد الأعداد العشوائية		15.7722
7	Japanese (ja) 乱数生成		13.0997
8	Catalan (ca) Generació de nombres aleatoris		12.5869
9	Chinese (zh) 随机数生成		9.3899
10	Indonesian (id) Pembangkitan bilangan acak		8.8371

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Random number generation		6 532 626
2	French (fr) Générateur de nombres aléatoires		418 063
3	Russian (ru) Генератор случайных чисел		255 635
4	Chinese (zh) 随机数生成		93 025
5	Persian (fa) تولید اعداد تصادفی		89 134
6	Czech (cs) Generátor náhodných čísel		80 602
7	Turkish (tr) Rastgele sayı üretimi		36 544
8	Ukrainian (uk) Генерація випадкових чисел		35 894
9	Arabic (ar) توليد الأعداد العشوائية		24 676
10	Serbian (sr) Generisanje slučajnih brojeva		15 801

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Random number generation		21 566
2	Russian (ru) Генератор случайных чисел		1 484
3	French (fr) Générateur de nombres aléatoires		1 141
4	Italian (it) Generatore di numeri casuali		1 090
5	Japanese (ja) 乱数生成		898
6	Chinese (zh) 随机数生成		564
7	Korean (ko) 난수 발생기		500
8	Persian (fa) تولید اعداد تصادفی		397
9	Czech (cs) Generátor náhodných čísel		290
10	Indonesian (id) Pembangkitan bilangan acak		241

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Random number generation		432
2	French (fr) Générateur de nombres aléatoires		78
3	Persian (fa) تولید اعداد تصادفی		35
4	Chinese (zh) 随机数生成		21
5	Russian (ru) Генератор случайных чисел		19
6	Czech (cs) Generátor náhodných čísel		18
7	Turkish (tr) Rastgele sayı üretimi		17
8	Serbian (sr) Generisanje slučajnih brojeva		10
9	Ukrainian (uk) Генерація випадкових чисел		10
10	Indonesian (id) Pembangkitan bilangan acak		7

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Random number generation		4
2	Arabic (ar) توليد الأعداد العشوائية		0
3	Azerbaijani (az) Təsadüfi ədəd generatoru		0
4	Catalan (ca) Generació de nombres aleatoris		0
5	Czech (cs) Generátor náhodných čísel		0
6	Persian (fa) تولید اعداد تصادفی		0
7	French (fr) Générateur de nombres aléatoires		0
8	Hindi (hi) यादृच्छिक संख्या जनित्र		0
9	Indonesian (id) Pembangkitan bilangan acak		0
10	Italian (it) Generatore di numeri casuali		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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