Calling Alea (or any of the others) with new is unnecessary, but harmless. The optional arguments may be of any number and nature. The call returns a function, random, that is functionally equivalent ...

And they don't say the random number generator function in JavaScript -- Math.random() -- is broken. They say it "offers sub-par quality." Specifically, V8 used a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) ...

Random numbers are useful for creating random behavior. JavaScript has a Math.random() function that generates a random decimal number between 0 (inclusive) and 1 (exclusive). Thus Math.random() can ...

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 … ...

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 ...