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PRNG

PRNG is the initialism of pseudorandom number generator.

Meaning of pseudorandom number generator

Noun

pseudorandom number generator (plural pseudorandom number generators)

  1. A device or algorithm that deterministically produces a succession of values that appear in an unpredictable sequence or apparently random order.
    • NumPy also has its own implementation of a pseudorandom number generator and convenience wrapper functions.2018, Jason Brownlee, Statistical Methods for Machine Learning, Machine Learning Mastery, page 51
    Synonyms:
    PRNG

Forms of PRNG

pluralPRNGs

Questions about PRNG

What is PRNG the initialism of?
PRNG is the initialism of pseudorandom number generator.

Words near PRNG in the dictionary

  1. PRMS
  2. prms.
  3. prn
  4. PRNDL
  5. PRNDLs
  6. PRNG
  7. PRNGs
  8. prns
  9. prntr.
  10. prntrs.
  11. pro

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Adapted from Wiktionary: PRNG (page history and authors); pseudorandom number generator (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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