Thursday, June 11, 2009

RANDOM.ORG - True Random Number Service

RANDOM.ORG is a website that has tools to generate true random numbers. A lot of services that claim to generate random numbers really do not generate random numbers. There will be patterns in them. A lot of programming function also do not generate true random numbers. The PHP language has a function rand() that is supposed to generate a random number, however it is not truly random. They are referred to as pseudo-random.

RANDOM.ORG is a website that was built by a professor: Dr Mads Haahr. He is currently turning the website into a business.

There is a Coin Flipper there that has some interesting types of coins to be flipped. There are options to flip many types of coins and the number of coins to be flipped can be set.

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