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Generating Random Numbers

Explore how to generate pseudorandom numbers in Go using the math/rand package. Understand the importance of seeding to control the randomness sequence and see practical examples of producing random values within specified ranges.

Random number generation is an art as well as a research area in computer science. This is because computers are purely logical machines, and it turns out that using them to generate random numbers is extremely difficult!

Random numbers generation in Go

Go can help us with that using the functionality of the math/rand package.

Seed generation

Each random number ...