Applications of Randomness - Other Uses

Other Uses

Random numbers are also used in situations where "fairness" is approximated by randomization, such as selecting jurors and military draft lotteries. In the Book of Numbers (33:54), Moses commands the Israelites to apportion the land by lot.

Other examples include selecting, or generating, a "Random Quote of the Day" for a website, or determining which way a villain might move in a computer game.

Weaker forms of randomness are also closely associated with hash algorithms and in creating amortized searching and sorting algorithms.

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