This was a problem relatively new to the nascent computer age and its solution was, of course, a product of its time. "Many of the applications required a large supply of random digits or normal deviates of high quality." Or, as stated in the its introduction, the book was made "to solve problems of various kinds by experimental probability procedures which have come to be called 'Monte Carlo methods'" - the reference being to numbers generated by spinning a roulette wheel. The book was created to fill a need in testing computational algorithms where a large supply of unique and nonrepeating number sequences are required. The Rand Corporation, John Cage and the I ChingĪ Million Random Digits With 100,000 Normal Deviates is a text created by the Rand Corporation and published by the Free Press of Glencoe, Illinois, in 1955. Arbitrating the Arbitrary: What of the Undone? II. The Rand Corporation, John Cage and the I Ching III. Darwinian Grammar and its Eventual Undoing WORD PROCESSOR: HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE COLLECTION
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