A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates (English, Rand Corporation)

Hidden game on the last section. You can skim the first section if you want, and come back to it as needed.

You don’t have to read this in order! If you want a random digit, you can open it to any page and point. Fun game: search the second half of the book for pages that have normal variates greater than 3.0 or less than -3.0! Hours of fun. Bonus: use the Extreme Normal Distribution (or the Gumble approximation) to figure out the expected number of such pages!

It has EVERYTHING!

I can't understand all the negative reviews! This book literally contains everything I could ever ask for in a book. Recipe for spanokopita? Check! Name of every person ever born? Check! Next week's powerball, bingo, MLB, and NASCAR results? Check! By randomly combining and recombining the contents at random, I have read the works of Shakespeare, Harry Potter 8: the Tomb of Crying Stilton (to be released in 2014), the Bible AND the REAL Bible. I threw out my other books when I realized I could just jump around in this book and derive any other book I wanted. I think Borges wrote a story about this, but it's taking me a while to find that story in my book. I did find some steamy erotica this morning, though, so who's complaining?

Bad ending but good otherwise

Very interesting, starts off slow but picks up and is great until the end, which doesn’t match up.

Really good value for money

This is an amazing book: go and check out its history on the web!This is a very good deal, because despite the claim in the title, the book is 400 pages each filled with 50 digits: you actually get 2 million random digits at the price of 1 million.Every now and then, you have the feeling to read something that you've already bumped into, but that's a minor issue; the plot still holds and it's truly unpredictable.Spoiler Alert: it ends on 41998. You should read it anyway, as you'll never guess how you get there!

Compendium?

For those of us without a two week vacation to devote to this tome, I would like to see a Clif's Notes version. Maybe 10,000 random numbers?SPOILER ALERT: They just pretty much stay random the whole time, no plot twists or anything. I mean if you've seen one random number, you've seen them all. In a slap in the face of randomness, the very randomness of it got repetitive after a few pages. Save yourself the time, and if you need a random number, just sort of think of a random number in your head and write it down. Odds are its in the book already, and you saved yourself $80.On the plus side, great comments. Please read my upcoming meta-pop-economics book, "Absurdity, Humor, and Metacommentary in Current Anonymous Internet Communication, A Case Study: Literary Criticism of the BookBajar.com Comments Section for the Book 'A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates' by the Rand Corporation." Coming soon to BookBajar.com.