I want to be able to generate my own random numbers without using the random module. I want to do this that way I can learn somewhat how to do the big boy code on my own.
Pseudo-random number generators are a very complex subject, so it's better off to use the implementations produced by the people that have a good understanding of the subject.
Python uses the Mersenne twister as the core generator. It produces 53-bit precision floats and has a period of 2**19937-1.
The underlying implementation in C is both fast and threadsafe.
APLX is a very complete implementation of the APL programming language from MicroAPL. The company stopped producing it in 2016 and it has been taken over by Dyalog. While Dyalog ...