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[[Image:Middle-square method.svg|right|250px|thumb|One iteration of the middle-square method, showing a six digit seed, which is then squared, and the resulting value has its middle six digits as the output value (and also as the next seed for the sequence).]]
In [[mathematics]], the [[middle-square method]] is a method of generating [[pseudorandom number]]s. In practice it is not a good method, since its period is usually very short and it has some crippling weaknesses. The method was first suggested by [[John Von Neumann]] in 1946.
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