Archive What If? Blag Store About A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. My new book, Thing Explainer , is out! Order: Amazon , Barnes & Noble , Indie Bound , Hudson I'm doing a live Q&A; at 2:30pm PT with The Martian author Andy Weir. Random Number |< < Prev Random Next > >| |< < Prev Random Next > >| Permanent link to this comic: http://xkcd.com/221/ Image URL (for hotlinking/embedding): http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/random_number.png int getRandomNumber() { return 4; chosen by fair dice roll. guarenteed to be random. } {{title text: RFC 1149.5 specifies 4 as the standard IEEE-vetted random number.}} Search comic titles and transcripts: <script type="text/javascript" src="//www.google.com/jsapi"></script> <script type="text/javascript">google.load('search', '1');google.setOnLoadCallback(function() {google.search.C...