The math behind all the discussion of tonight’s Powerball drawing assumes true randomness – equal likelihood for each number to be chosen, both in the drawing itself and, crucially, in the process of ...

JENNIFER: HE WATCHES US ONLINE, SO HE WILL BE THRILLED THAT YOU SAID THAT! CHANGES COMING TO THE MARYLAND LOTTERY. STARTING MONDAY, LOTTERY OFFICIALS WILL USE A COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR DRAWINGS INSTEAD OF ...

Randomness rules the very fabric of reality. So it only makes sense that scientists have figured out how to use nature’s randomness as a tool in our mundane world. Random numbers go hand-in-hand with ...

Education Minister Norma Foley is under fire as school principals voice anger after her department resorted to allocating funding for science projects via a “random number generator” after it received ...

Whether it’s a game of D&D or encrypting top-secret information, a wide array of methods are available for generating the needed random numbers with high enough entropy for their use case. For a ...

A team of international scientists has developed a laser that can generate 254 trillion random digits per second, more than a hundred times faster than computer-based random number generators (RNG).

Prosecutors say they have unearthed forensic evidence that shows how a former computer security official for a US state lottery association let him rig drawings worth millions of dollars across five ...