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 ...

Using a single, chip-scale laser, scientists have managed to generate streams of completely random numbers at about 100 times the speed of the fastest random-numbers generator systems that are ...

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).