Generator
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A generator refers to several things:
- Electrical generator
- Generator (song), a song of The Foo Fighters
- Generator (album), an album by punk band Bad Religion, and its opening track
- Generator (band), a band from Minnesota
- Generator (mathematics), any of several closely related usages in mathematics.
In computing:
- Generator (computer science), a specialized coroutine that acts like an iterator
- A program which produces a stream of data
- Pseudorandom number generator, producer of a sequence of random or nearly-random numbers
- Prime number generator, a producer of the ordered sequence of prime numbers
- A zero-generator, the pseudo-device /dev/zero outputs a never ending stream of zero-valued bytes
- chargen, a network character generator communications protocol (see RFC 864).
- Code generator, a program which creates source code as its output
- anything that creates source code automatically in generative programming
- Natural language generator, a program that produces human language from a machine representation
- Generator matrix, a matrix whose rows can generate all the elements of a linear code
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