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user7671666
user7671666

Reputation:

How do I predict the output of Python's random number generator?

Here is my code

from random import randint

print(randint(0,9))

Now I want to know which number it will generate if run this code. What is the algorithm behind it?

Is there a way I can change it.

If that does not work, then let me ask something different

from random import randint
for i in range(10):
    print(randint(0,9))

Let's take this example. This will print 10 random numbers

list[2,1,4,5,2,4,5,2,1,5]

If I know 9 numbers in the above list, is there a way to know the 10th number for that instance?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5763

Answers (1)

GPhilo
GPhilo

Reputation: 19133

The whole point of a random number generator is to provide random numbers. Ideally, no, there is no way to predict what's the 10th number given 9 numbers in the sequence (because, again,that's not random!)

What you can do is set the seed of the random number generator with random.seed(some_value). By using the same seed, the sequence of numbers generated by subsequent calls to randint() will be identical (note: identical, not predictable).

Upvotes: 1

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