I have been developing my world-building game Wubby for some time now, and the worst problem I stumbled upon was getting the proper grid calculations when the player had to place down blocks. With ...

Abstract: Enhancing chaos-based PRNGs quality is the subject of this paper. The big problem that chaotic systems suffer from is the limited arithmetic computation size, that is; dynamical degradation ...

Abstract: In this letter, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a high-speed true random number generator (TRNG) by exploiting the probabilistic delay time of threshold switching (TS) in a unified ...

The Random123 library is a collection of counter-based random number generators ( "CBRNGs") for CPUs (C and C++) and GPUs (CUDA and OpenCL), as described in Parallel Random Numbers: As Easy as 1, 2, 3 ...

As the industry winds down for Christmas and the out-of-office autoreplies light up, it's time to turn to the comforting traditions that warm those winter nights. It's time for the annual ...

Christmas has come early for UK artists, according to PRS, anyway. The Performing Rights Society has just announced its largest ever royalty payout of £274.9 million to rights holders worldwide. This ...

Winning the lottery is a long shot at 1 in 292.2 million odds of taking home the jackpot, but maybe Santa will see how good we've been this year. Wednesday night's Powerball jackpot has now reached $1 ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before numbers were written down. By closely studying Halafian pottery, researchers ...

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