random
Mathematical Programming with Python
https://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/classes/...
python_2025/random/random.html

random: example of a bad random number generator. importing the random number generator functions from numpy(). Computing mean and variance. Using uniform and normal distributions. Random numbers between a and b. Random integers. Randomly selecting items from a set, such as dealing from a deck of cards. Random permutations. Controlling the random number generator.

Lecture notes:

• random.pdf

• random_test.py

• lcg.py, demonstrate a linear congruential generator.

• perfect_shuffle.py, apply a perfect shuffle to a deck of 52 cards.

• markov_text.py, apply a Markov Chain approach to a text, and generate new random sample texts.
• alice_oz.txt, the texts of Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz, used as the basis for the Markov experiment.