Generating a string of random numbers is easy. The hard part is proving that they’re random. As Dilbert creator Scott Adams once pointed out, “that’s the problem with randomness: you can never be sure ...

This is a basic math problem, but it’s got me stumped. What algorithm would I use to select 5 random numbers, with the constraint that they need to average to 4000. 5 is just an example, it could be ...

Facebook is the latest large tech company to begin mass layoffs, choosing 60 contractors reportedly at random using an algorithm. The unlucky contractors were employed by Meta via its Austin office of ...