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Behind Intel's New Random-Number Generator This random-number generator uses digital circuits to stump the smartest hackers. |
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October 16, 2004 |
A Catalog of Random Bits A computer scientist and collaborators have identified a variety of flaws in computer-based random number generators, invented more robust versions of existing generators, and developed a suite of rigorous tests to check for randomness... Puzzle of the Week... |
Science News
September 27, 2003
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The Bias of Random-Number Generators Researchers in Germany have provided some mathematical insight into why many random-number generators give wrong results in so-called cluster Monte Carlo simulations and related computational experiments. |
Science News
November 16, 2002
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Card Shuffling Shenanigans Application of statistics to card shuffling machines shows that they have flaws. |
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March 4, 2006
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The Limits of Mathematics No matter what the system of axioms or rules is, there will always be some assertion that can be neither proved nor invalidated within the system. |
Science News
June 29, 2002
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Dangerous Problems Some mathematical problems are easy to describe but turn out to be notoriously difficult to solve. Nonetheless, despite repeated warnings from those who have failed in the past, these unsolved problems continue to lure mathematicians into hours, days, and even years of futile labor. |
Science News
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Absolutely Abnormal Identifying the normal (or even the abnormal) in mathematics can pose serious difficulties... |
