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 … ...

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) ...

December 17, 2015 - 2:45 pm 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.

While there are small variations between browsers and methods, both Math.random and Crypto demonstrate acceptably random distributions. The differences in averages are relatively small, suggesting ...

While there are small variations between browsers and methods, both Math.random and Crypto demonstrate acceptably random distributions. The differences in averages are relatively small, suggesting ...