Ten winners were chosen at random from all of the entries using a random number generator.
Regulators were concerned that an entirely random number could have duplicates in the system.
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The data capture system only stores one item of information on your computer -- a random number.
That wasn't just some random number that I plucked out of a hat.
The random number is the only thing that distinguishes your browser from the millions of others on the internet.
Nature has used it like a giant computer running a random number generator.
Unseeded players are slotted into the draw by a computerized random number generator.
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However, this risk can be minimised by increasing the size of the biggest possible random number that can be chosen.
Ulevitch added a second random number id, making it tens of thousands of times harder for any hacker to trick his servers.
Twitter than calls back and gives the application a token (a random number, essentially), which says this client has the right to respond on behalf of this user.
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After the initial contributions had been made, the game continued for a random number of turns, with each player, in turn, being able to add to or subtract from his contribution to the pool.
There is, in essence, no data other than the categories and the random number stored in the system and so it's impossible to know (or indeed reverse engineer from that) who you are or where you've been.
Ulevitch's hacker paranoia inspired him to add an extra security feature: All DNS servers tag data with one random number (from 1 to 65, 000) to enable servers to recognize the right piece of data at the right time.
When Chris failed to return her calls years ago as a college freshman, she punched in a random number from his cellphone call list, reaching a girl in his dorm who woke him up and ordered him to call his mom, Ms. Berardi says.
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In the ad serving phase, when your computer requests an advert from the OIX (because a website has included our tag in their page), the browser sends the random number and the categories are used to deliver the targeted ad, not the details of your browsing, or anything about you or your computer.
He would ask one student to use a random-number generator to produce a list of random numbers, all between 1 and 10.
The latest digital machines still use random-number-generating microchips that are decades old.
Unfortunately the number I picked was too long, which made all the computers crash at random intervals with a popup with a very long number and my name next to it.
Clustering works by picking out a number of neighbourhoods at random 33 in this case and then surveying all the individuals in that neighbourhood.
If the sample is too small or is not random, then estimates regarding the number of responsive documents contained within the population could be wildly inaccurate.
Tying decisions to a proposed number, even when it is random or misguided, is known by psychologists as anchoring and helps explain why a "50% off" sale can seem so compelling even when the original price was vastly inflated.
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Many blame the betting industry, which offers wagers on not just the outcomes of contests, but also on virtually random events within them, such as the number of yellow cards issued in a football match, or the number of no-balls bowled during an innings in cricket.
The birds have been matched with schools on a random basis, but Mr Bowey said it seemed kite number one and the Rowlands Gill school were destined to link up.
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But at the moment, the apparent increase could be attributed to any number of factors, such as better diagnosis, or random fluctuations in the incidence of the disease, rather than the start of an epidemic.
But I think in a number of areas we now have got to conduct in some form of random testing.
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The Swedish online music site did not release the number of streams for the track which features on the DJs' new album, Random Access Memories.
Right now there are a number of behind-the-scenes features (and, earlier this year, one random episode of Red Shoe Diaries) that anyone can view for free.
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Contestant Number Two is the Metro Police in Washington, DC, which has decided to harass random travelers by searching their bags before they board the subway.
So Random House must have been heartened that Mr Frazier's new book entered the New York Times bestseller list at number two.
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