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 54.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). 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 June 2025 the article "Random number generation" was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Random number generation", its content was written by 446 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 707 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 927 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1442 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #121 in January 2004
• Global: #1309 in January 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #6746 in December 2019
• Global: #16957 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 July 1, 2025 (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		54.4264
2	French (fr) Générateur de nombres aléatoires		33.5547
3	Serbian (sr) Generisanje slučajnih brojeva		27.1852
4	Persian (fa) تولید اعداد تصادفی		21.8842
5	Chinese (zh) 随机数生成		20.8966
6	Czech (cs) Generátor náhodných čísel		18.8354
7	Japanese (ja) 乱数生成		14.6769
8	Catalan (ca) Generació de nombres aleatoris		12.5441
9	Indonesian (id) Pembangkitan bilangan acak		8.8008
10	Min Nan (zhminnan) Loān-sò͘ sán-seng		7.9671

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Random number generation		6 761 543
2	French (fr) Générateur de nombres aléatoires		430 375
3	Russian (ru) Генератор случайных чисел		274 695
4	Chinese (zh) 随机数生成		100 417
5	Persian (fa) تولید اعداد تصادفی		92 782
6	Czech (cs) Generátor náhodných čísel		84 489
7	Ukrainian (uk) Генерація випадкових чисел		38 900
8	Turkish (tr) Rasgele sayı üretimi		38 320
9	Arabic (ar) توليد الأعداد العشوائية		26 423
10	Italian (it) Generatore di numeri casuali		25 380

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		16 796
2	Russian (ru) Генератор случайных чисел		1 212
3	French (fr) Générateur de nombres aléatoires		999
4	Japanese (ja) 乱数生成		728
5	Chinese (zh) 随机数生成		634
6	Italian (it) Generatore di numeri casuali		575
7	Czech (cs) Generátor náhodných čísel		244
8	Korean (ko) 난수 발생기		171
9	Indonesian (id) Pembangkitan bilangan acak		151
10	Ukrainian (uk) Генерація випадкових чисел		149

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		446
2	French (fr) Générateur de nombres aléatoires		84
3	Persian (fa) تولید اعداد تصادفی		35
4	Chinese (zh) 随机数生成		22
5	Russian (ru) Генератор случайных чисел		19
6	Turkish (tr) Rasgele sayı üretimi		19
7	Czech (cs) Generátor náhodných čísel		18
8	Serbian (sr) Generisanje slučajnih brojeva		11
9	Ukrainian (uk) Генерація випадкових чисел		10
10	Japanese (ja) 乱数生成		9

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		3
2	French (fr) Générateur de nombres aléatoires		2
3	Arabic (ar) توليد الأعداد العشوائية		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Təsadüfi ədəd generatoru		0
5	Catalan (ca) Generació de nombres aleatoris		0
6	Czech (cs) Generátor náhodných čísel		0
7	Persian (fa) تولید اعداد تصادفی		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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