" Robert R. Coveyou of Oak Ridge National Laboratory once titled an article, " The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

They are supplied, a batch at a time, by a secret source and are continually changed by Wisman or his staff, at random intervals.

Thoroughly modern in treatment, they are at the same time, full of simple sincerity which invariably characterizes genuine Negro folk-music and are by no means to be confused with the average ' Broadway Spirituals ' which depend for their racial flavor upon sundry allusions to the ' Amen Corner ', ' judgement Day, ' Gabriel's Horn, and a frustrated devil -- with a few random hallelujahs thrown in for good measure.

In repetitions of the experiment from couple to couple, the votes of the two persons in a couple probably agree more often than independence would imply, because couples who visit the museum together are more likely to have similar tastes than are a random pair of people drawn from the entire population of visitors.

The number of successes on each shot is a value of a random variable that has values 0 or 1, and there are 5 such random variables here.

If it were wholly random and unrelated, it would be 2.0, assuming the five classes were equal in n, which approximately they are.

groups are simply random samples of the same population.

Because the levels themselves are random variables, some assumptions and the method of contrasting the treatments ( a multi-variable generalization of simple differences ) differ from the fixed-effects model.

The saucers are of two kinds: Large saucers fire in random directions, while small saucers aim at the player's ship.

* On the British game show Countdown, contestants are given 30 seconds to make the longest word from nine random letters.

The monotony between battles, the constant threat of artillery fire and bombardments, the struggle to find food, the lack of training of young recruits ( meaning lower chances of survival ), and the overarching role of random chance in the lives and deaths of the soldiers are described in detail.

Because they are excited, these fans hit the balloon at different times and in different directions with the motions being completely random.

It states that events are not predetermined, nor are they random.

There are 2, 598, 960 such combinations, and the chance of drawing any one hand at random is 1 / 2, 598, 960.

There are three general categories of casino games: table games, electronic gaming machines, and random number ticket games such as Keno and simulated racing.

Random number games are based upon the selection of random numbers, either from a computerized random number generator or from other gaming equipment.

Some casino games have a skill element, where the player makes decisions ; such games are called " random with a tactical element ".

Usually, if the enthusiasm of the novice increases over time, random coins found in circulation are not enough to satisfy their interest.

Belief in such a cabal is a device for reassuring oneself that certain occurrences are not random, but ordered by a human intelligence.

These are often accepted as random selections because the number of words has not been calculated beforehand, so the result is unknown right up until someone is selected.

the result of the effect and is partially random error.

Taken together with an increased emphasis on discipline in the RIC, this helped to curb the random atrocities the Black and Tans committed since March 1920 for the remainder of the war, if only because reprisals were now directed from above rather than being the result of a spontaneous desire for revenge.

This purposeful random walk is a result of simply choosing between two methods of random movement ; namely tumbling and straight swimming.

The result of a die roll is determined by the way it is thrown, according to the laws of classical mechanics ; they are made random by uncertainty due to factors like movements in the thrower's hand.

Whichever axis she uses, she has a 50 % probability of obtaining "+" and 50 % probability of obtaining "−", completely at random ; according to quantum mechanics, it is fundamentally impossible for her to influence what result she gets.

During the last several decades the number of El Niño events increased, and the number of La Niña events decreased, although we may need to observe ENSO for much longer to detect robust changes The question is whether this is a random fluctuation or a normal instance of variation for that phenomenon or the result of global climate changes toward global warming.

) This result was extended in 1987 to show that the probability that k random integers has greatest common divisor d is d < sup >- k </ sup >/ ζ ( k ).

According to this view, " after observing a long run of red on the roulette wheel, for example, most people erroneously believe that black will result in a more representative sequence than the occurrence of an additional red ", so people expect that a short run of random outcomes should share properties of a longer run, specifically in that deviations from average should balance out.

Specifically, if hair texture were simply the result of adaptively arbitrary human aesthetic preferences, one would expect that the global distribution of the various hair textures would be fairly random.

Historicism may be contrasted with reductionist theories, which suppose that all developments can be explained by fundamental principles ( such as in economic determinism ), or theories that posit historical changes as result of random chance.

A material with many atoms in such an excited state may thus result in radiation which is very spectrally limited ( centered around one wavelength of light ), but the individual photons would have no common phase relationship and would emanate in random directions.

In particular, files of random data cannot be consistently compressed by any conceivable lossless data compression algorithm: indeed, this result is used to define the concept of randomness in algorithmic complexity theory.

If a random experiment can result in N mutually exclusive and equally likely outcomes and if N < sub > A </ sub > of these outcomes result in the occurrence of the event A, the probability of A is defined by

The additional requirement of "' purposeful availment ' ensures that a defendant will not be hauled into a jurisdiction solely as a result of ' random, ' fortuitous ,' or ' attenuated ' contacts, omitted or of the unilateral activity of another party or a third person omitted Jurisdiction may, however, be exercised, under some circumstances, even though the defendant never physically entered the forum State.

A random variable's possible values might represent the possible outcomes of a yet-to-be-performed experiment or an event that has not happened yet, or the potential values of a past experiment or event whose already-existing value is uncertain ( e. g. as a result of incomplete information or imprecise measurements ).

As a result, the probability distribution for many continuous random variables is defined using a probability density function, which indicates the " density " of probability in a small neighborhood around a given value.

As a result, many algorithms such as quicksort and binary search degenerate into bad algorithms that are even less efficient than their naïve alternatives ; these algorithms are impractical without random access.

A material with many atoms in such an excited state may thus result in radiation which is very spectrally limited ( centered around one wavelength of light ), but the individual photons would have no common phase relationship and would emanate in random directions.

As soon as the " Play " button is pressed, the most recent random number is used to determine the result.

The painter's job is to listen and know these effects to produce paintings which are not just the effect of a random process, but the fruit of authentic work and the result of an effort towards inner beauty.

This situation will self-resolve, but will take a random time, and while it persists can result in invalid signals being propagated within the digital system for a short time.

It was thought, as a result of random initialization, the routing updates would spread out in time, but this was not true in practice.