As the journalist Brian Hayes writes in “ Randomness as a Resource,” these numbers may seem no more than “a close relative of chaos” that is already “all too abundant and everpresent.” But random numbers are chaotic for a good cause. Random numbers are chaotic for a good cause.Įven so, you might ask why random numbers are worth so much effort. This was a notable feat because the NIST team’s numbers were absolutely guaranteed to be random, a result never before achieved. It relies on counterintuitive quantum behavior with an assist from relativity theory to make random numbers. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, CO.
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Audio brought to you by curio.ioīut now we also have more sophisticated random number generators, the latest of which required a lab full of laser equipment at the U.S. Heel bones evolved into the familiar cube-shaped dice with pips that still provide random numbers for gaming and gambling today. Early Greeks and Romans played games of chance by tossing the heel bone of a sheep or other animal and seeing which of its four straight sides landed uppermost. People have been making random numbers in this way for millennia. Maybe this has never crossed your mind, but if you have ever tossed dice, whether in a board game or at the gambling table, you have created random numbers-a string of numbers each of which cannot be predicted from the preceding ones.
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