How do you play the pick a number game?

To play, pick a number between 0 and 100. The goal is to pick the number that’s closest to half the average of all guesses. So, for example, if the average of all guesses were 80, the winning number would be 40. Thanks very much to the 15,322 people who entered.

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What is a number generator?

A source of entropy (RNG)

Random number generators or RNGS are hardware devices or software programs which take non-deterministic inputs in the form of physical measurements of temperature or phase noise or clock signals etc and generate unpredictable numbers as its output.

How do you pick a random number?

Can a human pick a random number?

Generated numbers were tested for uniformity, independence and information density. The results suggest that humans can generate random numbers that are uniformly distributed, independent of one another and unpredictable.

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Can anything be truly random?

Researchers typically use random numbers supplied by a computer, but these are generated by mathematical formulas – and so by definition cannot be truly random. In the 1970s, scientists discovered that a widely-used formula produced regularities in its ‘random’ numbers that undermined countless research studies.