An explainer on how pseudo-random number generators shape outcomes in online games and why digital chance is not truly random.

Abstract: This brief presents the application of perimeter-gated single-photon avalanche diodes (pg-SPADs) as true random number generators (TRNGs). Typical SPADs have been used as random number ...

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