random-number

A 2002 experiment ran into a different problem: Real monkeys aren't random-number generators.

Even With Millions Typing Away, Aping Shakespeare Ain't Easy Carl Bialik 2011

But on the anniversary of a famous death -- like John Kennedy's assassination or the day Lennon was shot or Good Friday -- a random-number generator picked one of the players to be a killer.

Forgetfulness ISCARS 2010

If you show them a string of heads and tails that was produced by a random-number generator, they tend to think it is rigged — it looks orderly to them, too orderly.

Finding a Place for God 2008

If you show them a string of heads and tails that was produced by a random-number generator, they tend to think it is rigged — it looks orderly to them, too orderly.

Finding a Place for God 2008

The two physicists have proposed that CERN engage in a game of chance, a “card-drawing” exercise using perhaps a random-number generator, in order to discern bad luck from the future.

Freaky Physics TK 2009

Also remember that everyone who enters is entered into a random-number drawing for a cover flat.

seanan_mcguire: Poetry contest still open! seanan_mcguire 2009

The two physicists have proposed that CERN engage in a game of chance, a “card-drawing” exercise using perhaps a random-number generator, in order to discern bad luck from the future.

Archive 2009-10-01 TK 2009

Whenever you blast something, it triggers the same random-number generator that's at the heart of any digital slot machine.

Climb Into the Cockpit of Tomorrow's Slot Machine 2008

Whenever you blast something, it triggers the same random-number generator that's at the heart of any digital slot machine.

Climb Into the Cockpit of Tomorrow's Slot Machine By Adam Winer 2008

It's still a thrill to turn a box and a pile of springs, wires, LEDs and computer chips into a working random-number generator, just one of 12 projects you'll do.

Make It Yourself 2008