Very little in this life is truly random. A coin flip is influenced by the flipper’s force, its surrounding airflow, and ...

From jury duty to tax audits, randomness plays a big role. Scientists used quantum physics to build a system that ensures those number draws can’t be gamed.

G od, Albert Einstein famously declared, does not play dice. It’s a pithy statement, but a revealing one: to the famously ...

Now physicists have combined that feature with blockchain techniques to generate random numbers in a fully transparent process for the first time 1. Public sources of random numbers are used for ...

Java recently celebrated its 30 year anniversary. Despite its age, the language is still going strong and maintains its ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. KAUST and KACST claim that their new quantum random number ...

But spreadsheets can still be useful to generate random numbers in Excel. Random data can be used as input to a formula so as to test how it works under simulated conditions or used to randomly ...