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A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates

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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.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0833030477
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    978-0833030474
  3. Publisher
    American Book Publishers
  4. Publication date
    November 15, 2001
  5. Language
    English
  6. Dimensions
    8.2 x 1.47 x 10.92 inches
  7. Print length
    600 pages
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ American Book Publishers (November 15, 2001)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 600 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0833030477
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0833030474
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.8 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.2 x 1.47 x 10.92 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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If you're a teacher, social worker, psychiatrist, person of the cloth,someone who had a rough upbringing, or just someone who cares about children, you will very much want this book. You will be hooked right from the start and will eagerly follow me and the other children to the end. You'll want to recommend this book to others. Order it here on Amazon.My Imagination and Art Have Sustained Me: a memoir by Mary O'Brien
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JPMDallas77
5.0 out of 5 stars Compendium?
Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2010
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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.
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B. Dean
5.0 out of 5 stars It has EVERYTHING!
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2010
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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?
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Danno81
4.0 out of 5 stars First I was angry, then I was ecstatic!
Reviewed in the United States 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!

QED
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Hogan McHugh
5.0 out of 5 stars Bad ending but good otherwise
Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2020
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Very interesting, starts off slow but picks up and is great until the end, which doesn’t match up.
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Fork
2.0 out of 5 stars Love the premise, but the execution is a complete failure.
Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2012
I often find myself in need of a million random digits, and thought this would be the perfect solution. The $81.01 purchase price seemed a bit high to my tastes--especially for a niche product which has received mixed reviews here on Amazon. But I'm a niche customer, and I'm willing to pay a premium IF the product solves the problem at hand. Time is money, after all!!

But I can't help but feel I was duped. It certainly worked well enough the first time I needed a million random digits. But the *second* time I used the book, I was crestfallen to find the digits in the book were EXACTLY the same as before. How in good conscience can they possibly put their name on this product and market it as "random"?!?

If you just need a million random digits once (or maybe ten thousand random digits a hundred times), then fine: you're a casual user and this might get you by for your purposes. If it were a tenth of the cost, I might be okay myself...it's disposable, take it for what it is. But at nearly $100 (!?) I want a product that is going to LAST and I would be remiss in recommending RAND's craftsmanship here.
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Caffi
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully and deeply useless
Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2016
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Absolutely fabulous!!
It is really made of pages and pages full of random numbers!
Reading this gives you the feeling of the beauty of random,
and how big a million is. Wonderfully and deeply useless!
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3.14
3.0 out of 5 stars Spoiler alert: 8!
Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2016
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A very engrossing book with historical importance, it keeps you guessing until the end.
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JA
5.0 out of 5 stars Hidden game on the last section. You can skim the first section if you want, and come back to it as needed.
Reviewed in Canada on July 1, 2018
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You don’t have to read this in order! If you want a random digit, you can open it to any page and point. Fun game: search the second half of the book for pages that have normal variates greater than 3.0 or less than -3.0! Hours of fun. Bonus: use the Extreme Normal Distribution (or the Gumble approximation) to figure out the expected number of such pages!
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Cliente Amazon
5.0 out of 5 stars Really good value for money
Reviewed in Italy on June 17, 2017
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This is an amazing book: go and check out its history on the web!
This is a very good deal, because despite the claim in the title, the book is 400 pages each filled with 50 digits: you actually get 2 million random digits at the price of 1 million.
Every now and then, you have the feeling to read something that you've already bumped into, but that's a minor issue; the plot still holds and it's truly unpredictable.
Spoiler Alert: it ends on 41998. You should read it anyway, as you'll never guess how you get there!
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