Florida’s first bear hunt in a decade drew more than 160,000 applicants for just 172 permits. Hunt opponents submitted some ...

Statistical testing in Python offers a way to make sure your data is meaningful. It only takes a second to validate your data ...

COLLINGSWOOD, New Jersey − Among the customers stopping into the Speedy Mart on an early evening for cigarettes, fried chicken, snacks and soft drinks were a steady stream of big dreamers. The ...

I took note one day last week of a European soccer player scoring a hat trick, and for some reason it got me thinking about the enormous presence of the number 3 in our world of sports. Three strikes ...

Nearly 300 Burmese pythons were removed during a record-setting Florida Python Challenge this year, state wildlife officials said. The 10-day competition that ran from July 11-20 resulted in a record ...

Although these days we get to tap into many sources of entropy to give a pretty good illusion of randomness, home computers back in the 1980s weren’t so lucky. Despite this, their random number ...

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A team including CU PREP researchers and scientists from CU Boulder and NIST have built the first random number generator using quantum entanglement to produce verifiable random numbers. Dubbed CURBy, ...

If your name gets picked for jury duty, it’s because a computer used a random number generator to select it. The same goes for tax audits or when you opt for a quick pick lottery ticket. But how can ...