--- product_id: 12610439 title: "A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates" price: "€ 12.76" currency: EUR in_stock: false reviews_count: 10 url: https://www.desertcart.at/products/12610439-a-million-random-digits-with-100-000-normal-deviates store_origin: AT region: Austria --- # A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates **Price:** € 12.76 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates - **How much does it cost?** € 12.76 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.at](https://www.desertcart.at/products/12610439-a-million-random-digits-with-100-000-normal-deviates) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Not long after research began at RAND in 1946, the need arose for random numbers that could be used to solve problems of various kinds of experimental probability procedures. These applications, called Monte Carlo methods, required a large supply of random digits and normal deviates of high quality, and the tables presented here were produced to meet those requirements.This book was a product of RAND's pioneering work in computing, as well a testament to the patience and persistence of researchers in the early days of RAND. The tables of random numbers in this book have become a standard reference in engineering and econometrics textbooks and have been widely used in gaming and simulations that employ Monte Carlo trials. Still the largest published source of random digits and normal deviates, the work is routinely used by statisticians, physicists, polltakers, market analysts, lottery administrators, and quality control engineers. A 2001 article in the New York Times on the value of randomness featured the original edition of the book, published in 1955 by the Free Press. The rights have since reverted to RAND, and in this digital age, we thought it appropriate to reissue a new edition of the book in its original format, with a new foreword by Michael D. Rich, RAND's Executive Vice President Review: Compendium? - For those of us without a two week vacation to devote to this tome, I would like to see a Clif's Notes version. Maybe 10,000 random numbers? SPOILER ALERT: They just pretty much stay random the whole time, no plot twists or anything. I mean if you've seen one random number, you've seen them all. In a slap in the face of randomness, the very randomness of it got repetitive after a few pages. Save yourself the time, and if you need a random number, just sort of think of a random number in your head and write it down. Odds are its in the book already, and you saved yourself $80. On the plus side, great comments. Please read my upcoming meta-pop-economics book, "Absurdity, Humor, and Metacommentary in Current Anonymous Internet Communication, A Case Study: Literary Criticism of the desertcart.com Comments Section for the Book 'A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates' by the Rand Corporation." Coming soon to desertcart.com. Review: It has EVERYTHING! - I can't understand all the negative reviews! This book literally contains everything I could ever ask for in a book. Recipe for spanokopita? Check! Name of every person ever born? Check! Next week's powerball, bingo, MLB, and NASCAR results? Check! By randomly combining and recombining the contents at random, I have read the works of Shakespeare, Harry Potter 8: the Tomb of Crying Stilton (to be released in 2014), the Bible AND the REAL Bible. I threw out my other books when I realized I could just jump around in this book and derive any other book I wanted. I think Borges wrote a story about this, but it's taking me a while to find that story in my book. I did find some steamy erotica this morning, though, so who's complaining? ## Features - Used Book in Good Condition ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #2,319,018 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1,640 in Elementary Mathematics #2,633 in Probability & Statistics (Books) #39,971 in Engineering (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.0 out of 5 stars 696 Reviews | ## Images ![A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61X7j-0v5GL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Compendium? *by J***7 on February 15, 2010* For those of us without a two week vacation to devote to this tome, I would like to see a Clif's Notes version. Maybe 10,000 random numbers? SPOILER ALERT: They just pretty much stay random the whole time, no plot twists or anything. I mean if you've seen one random number, you've seen them all. In a slap in the face of randomness, the very randomness of it got repetitive after a few pages. Save yourself the time, and if you need a random number, just sort of think of a random number in your head and write it down. Odds are its in the book already, and you saved yourself $80. On the plus side, great comments. Please read my upcoming meta-pop-economics book, "Absurdity, Humor, and Metacommentary in Current Anonymous Internet Communication, A Case Study: Literary Criticism of the Amazon.com Comments Section for the Book 'A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates' by the Rand Corporation." Coming soon to Amazon.com. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ It has EVERYTHING! *by B***N on September 7, 2010* I can't understand all the negative reviews! This book literally contains everything I could ever ask for in a book. Recipe for spanokopita? Check! Name of every person ever born? Check! Next week's powerball, bingo, MLB, and NASCAR results? Check! By randomly combining and recombining the contents at random, I have read the works of Shakespeare, Harry Potter 8: the Tomb of Crying Stilton (to be released in 2014), the Bible AND the REAL Bible. I threw out my other books when I realized I could just jump around in this book and derive any other book I wanted. I think Borges wrote a story about this, but it's taking me a while to find that story in my book. I did find some steamy erotica this morning, though, so who's complaining? ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ First I was angry, then I was ecstatic! *by D***1 on May 10, 2013* I have 2 perspectives on this book: 1) The story is derivative and uninspired. The story either repeats itself or just mixes up the previous chapters. Not cool! I even found that there are large chunks of story directly lifted from other works. Notably my "1 million digits of Pi" bedroom poster. Yes, that's right, parts of this book are stolen from copyrighted material! Although, as that work was created ~13.7 billion years ago, I'm not sure if the copyright still stands? We may have to check with the late creators estate on the current status. 2) The book is a work of genius possibly used to relay secret government messages about the lies of global warming. I thought I could see a hidden message in the book and I found I was RIGHT! As I read the book I noticed something, the number 23 appeared all the way through the book and, as you know, that means the New World Order have something to do with this book. Not only was it hidden in some of the numbers it was actually there in full, in plain sight, over and over. You may think that's a dead giveaway to the conspiracy, and not genius to leave such conspiracy information in plain view of all, however it was just a misdirection. What I found out next was SHOCKING! I took all the digits in the book and plotted them into a planar graph (odd that the numbers required "PLOTTING", it confirms what I'm saying even more!). At first there was nothing, so I took the numbers and did some work on them. First I multiplied every third number by 23 (THEIR code number) and added the resulting digits together from each result and continued to do so until they were all single digits. Then I ran the other numbers through a multi-dimensional kaleidoscopic fractional algorithm and converted the numbers to base 18.5 which took further multi-dimensional refactoring. They really have hidden this message deep! Once I had my numbers I knew I was close. I printed them ALL out one by one on A3 paper, global warming is a lie so I didn't have to worry about the environmental impact of that, and arranged them in a horizontally polarised alphabetical order, positioning them using my dousing rods, in a secret salt flat in the Nevada desert (I like to watch this salt flat on a daily basis). Once they were arranged I borrowed a helicopter I found nearby (I say helicopter, but it was either a disk or cigar shape, depending on speed, and seemed to fly by glowing and humming without propellers) and what did I see from above? Only the words: "This is a lie... This is a lie". And guess what you get if you add up all the characters not including spaces? That's right... 23! And that Pi poster I mentioned earlier? I get EXACTLY THE SAME RESULT! 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