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In 1704, Sebastien Truchet considered all possible patterns formed by tilings of right triangles oriented at the four corners of a square (Wolfram 2002, p. 875). Truchet's ...

A shuffling algorithm used in a class of random number generators.

A random polygon containing the origin (Kovalenko 1999).

A lottery in which three numbers are picked at random from the integers 1-14.

A random partition of a number n is one of the P(n) possible partitions of n, where P(n) is the partition function P. A random partition can be given by RandomPartition[n] in ...

A slightly archaic term for a computer-generated random number. The prefix pseudo- is used to distinguish this type of number from a "truly" random number generated by a ...

A random polygon is a polygon generated in some random way. Kendall conjectured that the shape of a random polygon is close to a disk as the area of the polygon becomes large ...

A Young tableau chosen at random from those having a given shape. A random tableau can be generated by RandomTableau[shape] in the Wolfram Language package Combinatorica` . ...

A random variate is a variable generated from uniformly distributed pseudorandom numbers. Depending on how they are generated, a random variate can be uniformly or ...

Differential entropy differs from normal or absolute entropy in that the random variable need not be discrete. Given a continuous random variable X with a probability density ...