The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, Vol. 43, No. 5 (Oct., 1972), pp. 1719-1726 (8 pages) Let {Xn, n ≥ 1} be a sequence of random variables such that for suitably ...

To simulate chance occurrences, a computer can’t literally toss a coin or roll a die. Instead, it relies on special numerical recipes for generating strings of shuffled digits that pass for random ...

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Take a look at Champernowne’s Constant. It’s a ridiculously easy sequence to make, and yet it fooled programs designed to root out underlying order in seemingly random numbers. David Gawen ...

Newcastle University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. After thousands of years of trying, mathematicians are still working out the number known as pi or “π”. We typically think of ...