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The quest for randomness

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It's not easy to generate a string of numbers that lack any pattern or rule, or even to define exactly what randomness means.

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 54, Issue 4
April 2011
139 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/1924421
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Published: 01 April 2011
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