Editing Pseudorandomness (section)

==History==
Before modern computing, researchers requiring random numbers would either generate them through various means ([[dice]], [[playing cards|cards]], [[roulette|roulette wheels]],<ref name=":0" /> etc.) or use existing random number tables.

The first attempt to provide researchers with a ready supply of random digits was in 1927, when the Cambridge University Press published a table of 41,600 digits developed by [[L.H.C. Tippett]]. In 1947, the [[RAND Corporation]] generated numbers by the electronic simulation of a roulette wheel;<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1418/index2.html|title=A Million Random Digits|date=January 2001 |publisher=RAND Corporation|access-date=2017-03-30}}</ref> the results were eventually published in 1955 as ''[[A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates]]''.