Random Numbers - Numberphile
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JAMES CLEWITT: I think this is going to be a really exciting video, because today we are going to generate some random numbers with strontium-90-- radioactive strontium-90. I find all of this quite unnerving because this stuff is dangerous. You have to really respect it. It will hurt you. Let's do it. You've asked me to generate for you a random number, right? And I want to throw that straight back at you. I want to play a game, actually. What I want you to do-- all of you, everybody, all right? You watching? Everybody, I want you to clear your head for a moment and I want you to think of a random number from 1 to 10. Got it? OK. BRADY HARAN: Choose a number between 1 and 10. MALE SPEAKER: Do I tell you it? OK. I'll choose 6. MALE...
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JAMES CLEWITT: I think this is going to be a really exciting video, because today we are going to generate some random numbers with strontium-90-- radioactive strontium-90. I find all of this quite unnerving because this stuff is dangerous. You have to really respect it. It will hurt you. Let's do it. You've asked me to generate for you a random number, right? And I want to throw that straight back at you. I want to play a game, actually. What I want you to do-- all of you, everybody, all right? You watching? Everybody, I want you to clear your head for a moment and I want you to think of a random number from 1 to 10. Got it? OK. BRADY HARAN: Choose a number between 1 and 10. MALE SPEAKER: Do I tell you it? OK. I'll choose 6. MALE...
