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  2. The Burning Wheel - Wikipedia

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    The Burning Wheel is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game independently written and published by Luke Crane. The game uses a dice pool mechanic (using only standard six-sided dice) for task resolution and a character generation system that tracks the history and experiences of new characters from birth to the point they begin adventuring.

  3. The Wheel of Time - Wikipedia

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    The Wheel of Time is a series of high fantasy novels by American author Robert Jordan, with Brandon Sanderson as a co-author for the final three installments. Originally planned as a six-book series with the publication of The Eye of the World in 1990, The Wheel of Time came to span 14 volumes, in addition to a prequel novel and three companion ...

  4. Mersenne Twister - Wikipedia

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    Mersenne Twister. The Mersenne Twister is a general-purpose pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) developed in 1997 by Makoto Matsumoto [ ja] (松本 眞) and Takuji Nishimura (西村 拓士). [1] [2] Its name derives from the choice of a Mersenne prime as its period length.

  5. Rolling and wheeled creatures in fiction and legend - Wikipedia

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    Rolling creatures. A coin of Agathocles of Syracuse, Sicily, showing three legs with wings and a head in their joining point. The triskelion is a motif with central symmetry used since ancient times. A variant with three human legs appears in the medieval flag of the Isle of Man . A variant with the head of Medusa in the union of the legs is ...

  6. 2021 Fantasy Football Team Names: What will you call ... - AOL

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    Quaranteam. I think this team name, while funny, also hits home for the vast majority of us. 2020 was rough, so it's no surprise to see players name their team name based on a life experience ...

  7. The Wheel of Time (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    The Wheel of Time is an American high fantasy television series developed by Rafe Judkins for Amazon Prime Video. The series is based on the book series of the same name by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson . The first season, consisting of eight episodes, premiered on Prime Video on November 19, 2021, with the first three episodes released ...

  8. Fortuna (PRNG) - Wikipedia

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    Fortuna is a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator (CS-PRNG) devised by Bruce Schneier and Niels Ferguson and published in 2003. It is named after Fortuna, the Roman goddess of chance. FreeBSD uses Fortuna for /dev/random and /dev/urandom is symbolically linked to it since FreeBSD 11. [1] Apple OSes have switched to Fortuna ...

  9. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy - Wikipedia

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    Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy ( Japanese: 偶然と想像, Hepburn: Gūzen to Sōzō, lit. "Chance and Imagination") is a 2021 [5] Japanese romantic drama anthology film written and directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi. [2] [7] The film stars Kotone Furukawa, Katsuki Mori, and Fusako Urabe as the lead actresses of each of the anthology's three segments.