The quest for randomness

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 13-15

  Anthes, Gary ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENTISTS; RANDOM NUMBERS;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

EID: 79953663276     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1924421.1924427     Document Type: Article

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