An explainer on how pseudo-random number generators shape outcomes in online games and why digital chance is not truly random.

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Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

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