You’re hundreds of times more likely to get hit by lightning than to win the lottery, but Davidson College math professor Tim ...

How the Math of Shuffling Cards Almost Brought Down an Online Poker Empire Card dealers create a unique deck with each ...

Quantum computers promise enormous computational power, but the nature of quantum states makes computation and data ...

Abstract: The multivariate Gaussian distribution is used to model random processes with distinct pair-wise correlations, such as stock prices that tend to rise and fall together. Multivariate Gaussian ...

KAIST researchers have developed a DRBG that theoretically achieves the highest possible level of security through a new proof technique, while maximizing speed by parallelizing its structure. This ...

A team of Korean researchers has developed a world-class Deterministic Random Bits Generator (DRBG). Random numbers are ...

Trust, but verify: Random number generation is a serious matter in modern computing. Most systems rely on a purely hardware-based approach to RNG, but the process is essentially impossible to ...

Scientists in the US have built a system for creating truly random numbers which cannot be tampered with by a third party. Random numbers might be needed to pick jury members out of a field without ...

Technology Engineering Here’s how to generate a truly random number with quantum physics CURBy is available online and free to use. Andrew Paul Published Jun 12, 2025 2:01 PM EDT ...

There’s no cheating this random number generator The protocol ensures jury duty selections and other draws are truly random and secure ...

How to know if your random number generator is really random "Encryption methodology actually makes use of random numbers in order to secure that information," said Travis Humble.

The problem of generating a random number with an arbitrary probability distribution by using a general biased M-coin is studied. An efficient and very simple algorithm based on the successive ...