True Randomness for Your Organization

More and more every day we see organizations that offer a drawing or prizes by doing simple things such as a "like" on the organizations Facebook page. So how do organizations pick winners like this and keep it all completely random. If you are looking for a great tool that enables you to do this, look no further than www.random.org.

Their website gives a little insight into what random generated randomness really is...

Perhaps you have wondered how predictable machines like computers can generate randomness. In reality, most random numbers used in computer programs are pseudo-random, which means they are a generated in a predictable fashion using a mathematical formula. This is fine for many purposes, but it may not be random in the way you expect if you're used to dice rolls and lottery drawings.

RANDOM.ORG offers true random numbers to anyone on the Internet. The randomness comes from atmospheric noise, which for many purposes is better than the pseudo-random number algorithms typically used in computer programs. People use RANDOM.ORG for holding drawings, lotteries and sweepstakes, to drive games and gambling sites, for scientific applications and for art and music. The service has existed since 1998 and was built and is being operated by Mads Haahr of the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College, Dublin in Ireland.

Random.org offers both FREE and paid services depending on what you are looking for. Services range from lottery picks, to dice rollers, to coin flippers, to sequence generators to random geographic coordinate generation. Go to their website now and check it out.

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