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  2. Premium Bonds - Wikipedia

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    ERNIE 5, the latest model, was brought into service in March 2019, and is a quantum random number generator built by ID Quantique. It uses quantum technology to produce random numbers through light, replacing the former 'thermal noise' method.

  3. Slot machine - Wikipedia

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    In 1984, Inge Telnaes received a patent for a device titled, "Electronic Gaming Device Utilizing a Random Number Generator for Selecting the Reel Stop Positions" (US Patent 4448419), [21] which states: "It is important to make a machine that is perceived to present greater chances of payoff than it actually has within the legal limitations that ...

  4. Random number - Wikipedia

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    A random number is generated by a random process such as throwing Dice. Individual numbers can't be predicted, but the likely result of generating a large quantity of numbers can be predicted by specific mathematical series and statistics .

  5. Category:Pseudorandom number generators - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 14 January 2023, at 06:53 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0; additional terms may apply.

  6. Pseudorandom number generator - Wikipedia

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    It can be shown that if is a pseudo-random number generator for the uniform distribution on (,) and if is the CDF of some given probability distribution , then is a pseudo-random number generator for , where : (,) is the percentile of , i.e. ():= {: ()}. Intuitively, an arbitrary distribution can be simulated from a simulation of the standard ...

  7. Global Consciousness Project - Wikipedia

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    Roger D. Nelson developed the project as an extrapolation of two decades of experiments from the controversial Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab (PEAR). [6]In an extension of the laboratory research utilizing hardware Random Event Generators (REG) [7] called FieldREG, investigators examined the outputs of REGs in the field before, during and after highly focused or coherent group ...

  8. Lotto New Zealand - Wikipedia

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    Every Lotto ticket had a 16-digit Winning Wheel number (e.g. 123-45678901-20XX) which was the same as the ticket's serial number, except that the two digit checksum was replaced with XX for security reasons. Every draw, a serial number was drawn at random.

  9. Randomization - Wikipedia

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    Randomization is a statistical process in which a random mechanism is employed to select a sample from a population or assign subjects to different groups. [1] [2] [3] The process is crucial in ensuring the random allocation of experimental units or treatment protocols, thereby minimizing selection bias and enhancing the statistical validity. [4]