How does a computer program generate random numbers? Example: when you ask Siri to give you a random number between 1 to 10, how does it come up with that number?

Question

How does a computer program generate random numbers? Example: when you ask Siri to give you a random number between 1 to 10, how does it come up with that number?

In: Mathematics

Answer 1

Randomness doesn’t exist, i mean not in math. Programming languages have “seeds” that is a factor of “randomness” which the program can access and calculate the next “random” number. That means that you will get a different number each time until the seed ends and then repeats the cycle.