This is a valid point -- most high level programming languages provide some kind of function to provide random numbers in a given interval, such as [0,1]. See a

This is a valid point -- most high level programming languages provide some kind of function to provide random numbers in a given interval, such as [0,1]. See also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2572366/how-to-use-dev-random-or-urandom-in-c https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2572366/how-to-use-dev-r... This is even true for shell scripting, see for instance http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/randomvar.html http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/randomvar.html