Random numbers from a radioactive source

Stats Chat 2013-04-11

Summary:

Here’s a fun link which talks about the difference between truly random numbers and pseudo-random numbers. When we teach this, we often mention generation of random numbers (or at least the random number seed) from a radioactive source as one way of getting truly random numbers. Here is someone actually doing it. The sequel is [...]

Link:

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Tags:

probability education random variation

Authors:

James Curran

Date tagged:

04/11/2013, 22:54

Date published:

04/11/2013, 21:27