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by marshray 796 days ago
If "random" implies "contains no information", then it is indeed a bug in anything calling itself a "random number generator".

But that's just my opinion. The world is free to use the word however it wants.

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“Random” means something closer to “contains maximal information”…
One way of thinking about it is that each bit has maximal information because knowing the entire previous history should give you no information about what the next bit will be ahead of it being revealed.