Cryptography, too, relies heavily on random numbers for the generation of unbreakable keys. Better, cheaper ways of generating and handling such numbers are therefore always welcome.

In the Swiss experiment, the camera was used to create a 1.25 Gbit/s stream of random numbers. One worry about any random-number generator is that the numbers could be influenced in a predictable way ...

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But who certifies the random numbers, and what can we do with them afterward? When you ask a computer to give you a random number, code behind the scenes is doing an approximation of randomness.

Computers store their data in binary code, rather than in base 10, so 1,024 random binary digits could be any one of 21024 numbers (its’s a kilobit).

Microsoft Excel can do a lot of cool things. If you need it to generate random numbers, Susan Harkins can show you how.