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4: Randomness, What Happens Without Sleep, and Stardew Valley

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Are You Trying to Make Random Numbers?

The only way we can make random numbers is through decaying radio material. CloudFlare has a Geiger counter hooked up to their computers that measures radioactive material. And so if you measure those decaying particles with a Geigercounter, you can turn them into random numbers. But I guess if you're using any kind of maths to create a random number, it's just not going to happen.

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