screenshot from rand.org
Today, I was surfing through the net looking for new things and just trying to learn more, then I came across this book "A million random digit" and I felt, anyone can write anything and publish it at will but I got confused when I saw it was sold for $68.00 okay web discount of $54.40. Why will anyone sell a book that is filled with random numbers for that exuberant amount?
screenshot from amazon.com
So I decided to check a few motivational books and I saw that they were sold for less than $10, so I asked myself, why will someone pay $60 for a book of random numbers?
Why do humans not just pick up their pen when they have a need to use a random number? I guess this is because we are a biased set of creatures. We are likely to pick the number from our telephone line number, house number or any other number you are familiar with. You are likely to forget the middle odds like 5 and remember the evens more faster, so humans are not the best options for picking random numbers. Computers are not as well as they work with programming and algorithm and when people can access that algorithm, the numbers can be predicted.
Now, this goes back to my very few questions;