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Published online 29 July 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030728-1
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Random numbers hit and miss
Maths pinpoints cause for faulty computer simulations.
Flip a coin 100 times and you'll get roughly as many heads as tails. But computers often stumble at generating random numbers - and now researchers have figured out why1.
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