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Random Press Coverage

Our work on random number generation has been reported in science magazins, daily press, online news services and even the radio. This may serve as an indication that the subject of computer generated randomness attracts many scientifically minded people. The down side of the press coverage is that we were drowned with emails from people who start to worry about the quality of their random number generator.

Science magazines

• The Bias of Random-Number Generators
  Ivars Peterson, Science News, Vol. 164, No. 13 - 27 Sept 2003
• Random numbers hit and miss
  Philip Ball, Nature Science Update, 29 July 2003
  
• Heads it's zero
  New Scientist, Vol. 179, Issue 2405 - 26 July 2003, page 22

Radio

• Digitale Dominanz der Null
  Deutschlandfunk, Forschung aktuell, 15.09.2003 (german)

Popular Science Books

• The Secret Life of Numbers
  George G. Szpiro, Joseph Henry Press (2006), see page 130

Daily Press (Selection)

• Toevalsgenerator is sterk verbeterd door nul weg te laten
  NRC Handelsblad, 12.10.2003, p. 38 (dutch)
• Zufallsgeneratoren bevorzugen die Null
  Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 20.08.2003 (german)
• Die verflixte Null
  Berliner Zeitung, 04.08.2003 (german)

Online News (Selection)

• Random numbers hit and miss
  ACM TechNews for IT Professionals, Volume 5, August 6, 2003
• Zufallszahlengeneratoren sind oft fehlerhaft
  www.wissenschaft.de, 31.07.2003 (german)
• Getting Precise About Random Numbers
  Kip Ingram Online, 29.07.2003
• Kopf oder Zahl
  wissenschaft-online.de, 29.07.2003 (german)
• Zahlenspiel
  www.industrienet.de (german)
• Problem med slumptalsgeneratorer?
  Håkan Kjellerstrand's weblogg (swedish)
• Numeri casuali, ma non troppo
  Giornale di scienza e problemi globali, www.galileonet.it (italian)