According to this post on the official V8 Javascript blog, the pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) that V8 Javascript uses in Math.random() is horribly flawed and getting replaced with something … ...

So it turns out the random number generator long used by developers working with Google's V8 JavaScript engine doesn't really generate random numbers at all.

Over the years, multiple studies have found that Google Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine was returning not-so-random numbers when you called the Math.random() function. Today that’s been fixed ...

I would have done it the 2nd way with VBScript rather than hack around with a command line script. If there is anything that needs looping, I default to VBScript.

Let’s pretend the JavaScript based selection of a random number caused a performance issue with our application. To rectify this issue, we will write a Java class to perform this function instead. The ...