The latest digital machines still use random-number-generating microchips that are decades old.

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He would ask one student to use a random-number generator to produce a list of random numbers, all between 1 and 10.

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Pose the following questions to help groups determine their polling samples and how their polls will be conducted: Will you use a random sample of voters or some other kind of sample?

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Gipps will be creating a print-ready electronic file, and he hopes that Random House will then use that to produce ebook editions themselves, thus making Uncle available to a much wider audience.

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Authors Guofo Zhou and Yingzi Zu use some complex math based on the random-walk theory to show that the odds of watching half your liquid net worth evaporate are roughly similar to those of another major life event: death.

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The 4420 will also offer "random erase technology" that lets you use a CD-RW disc just like a floppy or hard disk -- adding or deleting individual files at any time.

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Tau, like pi, has infinitely many digits arranged in an apparently random order, so it's impossible to use them all.

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One idea that has taken root is the use of a token the size of a key fob that generates a random six-digit password every 60 seconds.

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The government said it had forbidden the use of the rice, "adopted control measures" and will continue surveillance and random sampling of rice in the city.

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It's an old, familiar ploy, one that New England really hasn't been able to use with a straight face in a full decade, when a long-shot Patriots outfit with a random backup QB met Kurt Warner and the unstoppable Rams.

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