"The most common reference used by compensation committees must be a table of random numbers," he said.

It uses a pre-assigned table of random numbers to find the person to be interviewed.

By using tables of random numbers the children were allocated to three groups: adenotonsillectomy, adenoidectomy, and no surgery.

Nowadays, tables of random numbers have been replaced by computational random number generators.

Then, everybody is given a number (0 to N-1), and random numbers are generated, either electronically or from a table of random numbers.

These men composed what was called "stochastic music," put together by choosing each individual note by consultation with tables of random numbers.

Tables of random numbers have the desired properties no matter how chosen from the table: by row, column, diagonal or irregularly.

Their method was designed to be implemented using pencil and paper, with a precomputed table of random numbers as the source of randomness.

Randomisation was done with a table of random numbers, the allocation codes were introduced in two series of sealed envelopes according to stratification class.

"It's a table of random numbers, like throwing darts against a wall," Mr. Crystal said, because "nobody's watching, nobody's looking under the rocks."

As a result of the Beta Scenario conclusions, timetables for shipment were established by a closed-code computer mechanism operating from a table of random numbers.

This great serpent, this incalculable dragon, was pi, a transcendental number, yielding, when expressed in decimal notation, an infinite table of random numbers.

In the original method the total units were given numbers from 1 upwards and the sample taken by means of tables of random numbers which could be bought.

There are several techniques for this, the most common being to select a sample from a list, called a sampling frame, according to numbers generated by tables of random numbers.

Before high-speed digital computers were invented, mathematicians compiled tables of random numbers by blindly flipping through phone books, casting dice, spinning spinners or drawing cards from a hat.

"Send out such a pip irregularly; Mr. Spock, please give Lieutenant Uhura a table of random numbers from the computer that she can use as a timetable.

Tables of random numbers (such as 256 random 32 bit integers) can provide high-quality nonlinear functions to be used as hash functions or for other purposes such as cryptography.

In one case it was reported that a "side-by-side chart of best-to-worst rankings of 18 wines by a roster of experienced tasters showed about as much consistency as a table of random numbers."

If we used a table of random numbers, and selected as the first two sites those corresponding to the first two numbers between 1 and 16 in the table, we would have selected a probability sample.

The chances would have to be taken by those who knew something about the odds; those who did not would fare just as well, or just as badly, by selecting their star of choice from a table of random numbers.

He had enough of an acquaintance with physics to know that what had been recorded on them represented what is called "pure noise," and he hit upon the idea of producing - with the aid of the tapes - tables of random numbers.

The hash code is 64 bits and is computed by fetching, for each piece and square combination, a unique 64-bit code from a table of random numbers, and computing the exclusive or (XOR) of these codes (Zobrist hashing).

Uses of Monte Carlo methods require large amounts of random numbers, and it was their use that spurred the development of pseudorandom number generators, which were far quicker to use than the tables of random numbers which had been previously used for statistical sampling.

There is an extensive body of mathematical theory that explores the consequences of making the allocation of units to treatments by means of some random mechanism such as tables of random numbers, or the use of randomization devices such as playing cards or dice.

In the mid-1940s, the RAND Corporation set about to develop a large table of random numbers for use with the Monte Carlo method, and using a hardware random number generator produced A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates.