"Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin." - John von Neumann

John von Neumann had a name with a real ring to it, and did math. He worked on ENIAC, an early computer that was originally used to make stuff explode with hydrogen bombs, and then later to make stuff explode with conventional bombs. He wrote a very early pseudorandom number generator that is widely considered to be pretty dang bad. (For an example of why, try a seed of 2500, or try a longer iteration count and look for patterns).

The colors are generated using a much, much better PRNG -- the mt19937 variant of the Mersenne Twister, which is baked into Sass.

Given a seed of , and iterations (feel free to change these, they are the variables defined at the top of the css column), it produces this series of random numbers: