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Random Numbers - Is That a Bad Thing?
People did literally roll dice for science. A D 20 can give you a lot of options. Francis Galton, who is one of the most famous statisticians wrote a paper in nature in 1890 called dice for statistical experiments. When they are shaken and tossed in a basket, they hurtle so variously against one another that they tumble wildly about. That's like reading an erotic novel about dice.