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Democratizing Information Technology

6: Randomness

Chapter 6

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Random numbers are key to computer simulations and this section will help readers understand what they are, how computer-generated random numbers work and how they are used in simulations and games.

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  1. What Does Randomness Mean?
  2. Randomness in games: dice, cards
  3. Generating Random Values
  4. Random events in real life: measuring randomness
  5. Simulating reality and intelligence
  6. Summary
    1. Concepts
    2. Terminology
  7. References, Notes & Further Resources

Images

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Figure 6-1: The set of outcomes for the tossing of a pair of six-sided dice.
Figure 6-2: The complete set of outcomes for the toss of two coins.
Figure 6-3: Rand Corporation. 1955. A million random digits with 100,000 normal deviates, Glencoe, Ill., Free Press. Used with permission.
Figure 6-4: Trees and plants rendered by simulating plant growth from a seed.
Figure 6-4b Plants rendered using traditional graphics techniques.
Figure 6-5: A bus stop, an example of a system that can be simulated. The real system (above right) must be abstracted into a model (bottom) before a simulation can be created.