Abstract
Random number generation is the transformation of a random variable X into another random variable Y with a specified probability distribution. One of the random random number generation problems that is most familiar to us is the one using coin flipping.
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Han, T.S. (2003). Random Number Generation. In: Information-Spectrum Methods in Information Theory. Stochastic Modelling and Applied Probability, vol 50. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-12066-8_2
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