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 54.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 38 references and 18 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “Random number generation” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Random number generation”, its content was written by 466 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 752 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 920 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1446 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #121 in January 2004
• Global: #1312 in January 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #6776 in December 2019
• Global: #17002 in December 2019

There are 20 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 July 1, 2026 (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		54.2892
2	French (fr) Générateur de nombres aléatoires		33.5047
3	Hungarian (hu) Véletlenszám-generálás		27.7564
4	Serbian (sr) Generisanje slučajnih brojeva		27.0622
5	Chinese (zh) 随机数生成		24.7893
6	Persian (fa) تولید اعداد تصادفی		20.6688
7	Czech (cs) Generátor náhodných čísel		18.7337
8	Ukrainian (uk) Генерація випадкових чисел		15.1361
9	Japanese (ja) 乱数生成		14.543
10	Catalan (ca) Generació de nombres aleatoris		11.5808

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Random number generation		6 956 256
2	French (fr) Générateur de nombres aléatoires		441 544
3	Russian (ru) Генератор случайных чисел		288 059
4	Chinese (zh) 随机数生成		105 171
5	Persian (fa) تولید اعداد تصادفی		94 451
6	Czech (cs) Generátor náhodných čísel		86 236
7	Ukrainian (uk) Генерація випадкових чисел		47 350
8	Turkish (tr) Rasgele sayı üretimi		35 443
9	Italian (it) Generatore di numeri casuali		30 753
10	Arabic (ar) توليد الأعداد العشوائية		26 882

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		16 299
2	Russian (ru) Генератор случайных чисел		1 053
3	French (fr) Générateur de nombres aléatoires		924
4	Chinese (zh) 随机数生成		530
5	Japanese (ja) 乱数生成		408
6	Italian (it) Generatore di numeri casuali		318
7	Ukrainian (uk) Генерація випадкових чисел		175
8	Czech (cs) Generátor náhodných čísel		116
9	Persian (fa) تولید اعداد تصادفی		116
10	Korean (ko) 난수 발생기		96

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		466
2	French (fr) Générateur de nombres aléatoires		86
3	Persian (fa) تولید اعداد تصادفی		35
4	Chinese (zh) 随机数生成		24
5	Russian (ru) Генератор случайных чисел		20
6	Czech (cs) Generátor náhodných čísel		19
7	Turkish (tr) Rasgele sayı üretimi		19
8	Serbian (sr) Generisanje slučajnih brojeva		11
9	Ukrainian (uk) Генерація випадкових чисел		11
10	Urdu (ur) تصادفی عدد مولّد		11

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	French (fr) Générateur de nombres aléatoires		1
3	Hungarian (hu) Véletlenszám-generálás		1
4	Arabic (ar) توليد الأعداد العشوائية		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Təsadüfi ədəd generatoru		0
6	Catalan (ca) Generació de nombres aleatoris		0
7	Czech (cs) Generátor náhodných čísel		0
8	Persian (fa) تولید اعداد تصادفی		0
9	Hindi (hi) यादृच्छिक संख्या जनित्र		0
10	Indonesian (id) Pembangkitan bilangan acak		0

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

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