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A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates Paperback – 15 Nov. 2001

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  1. Print length
    628 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    RAND
  4. Publication date
    15 Nov. 2001
  5. Dimensions
    20.83 x 3.73 x 27.74 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0833030477
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0833030474
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ RAND (15 Nov. 2001)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 628 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0833030477
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0833030474
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 20.83 x 3.73 x 27.74 cm
  • Customer reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 43 ratings

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Calbeanie
5.0 out of 5 stars Who knew what was next??
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 May 2022
Me…. Completely Predicabe but somehow awaiting the sequel with baited breath!
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Brockeim
5.0 out of 5 stars Accurate
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 March 2015
I did the math. It is accurate from start to finish. These are, in fact, random digits.

I look forward to a sequel.

--Brockeim
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John McGuiggan
5.0 out of 5 stars A promisong Trilogy
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 September 2015
Looking forward to the second book of what promises to be a classic trilogy: " A million Rndom Digits 2"
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Andy J
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting plot twists ensure you never knew what was coming next.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 November 2019
I was a fan of Rand’s earlier works so I gave this a look. Wasn’t disappointed. I found the index at the back to be a bit long winded, but useful. Only a few repetitions, but to be expected with a book this size.
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rhys
5.0 out of 5 stars Best book ive read all year.. Only book I read all year.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 February 2011
Wow, I loved this book, a real page turner. It started off kinda slow but the characters have real depth and you soon grow to care and really believe in them. I dont want to give too much away but I especially enjoyed the plot twist at the end, very clever. If you only have time to read one book this year, make sure its this one.
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M. Taylor
2.0 out of 5 stars Poorly edited with beautiful scenes
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 July 2012
You'd think that a book priced this high would have gone through a rigorous editing and review process, but apparently not. The book is littered with typos ("83252" instead of "83522" - seriously? Come ON!) and on page 153 the number 9 is missing entirely. At times it is even difficult to tell who is supposed to be speaking, although the author does redeem himself with some excellent dialogue choices.

For a story based on real life experiences in nineteenth-century Paris it contains numerous factual inconsistencies. The lead character, 51588, uses the term "91416 62520" to describe a 62985 24521. Err, hello? Since when did nineteenth-century Parisians start frequenting fast food establishments? Further on in the story our protagonist explains to 82365 that he is from "the small village of 00013" despite that, even then, it was a sprawling urban conurbation with a population of 98323. This demonstrates an abject lack of research by the author and appalling attention to detail. When the character 12345 was introduced on page 212 I almost lost my mind.

If you can look past these inconsistencies (Parisians eat 44901, apparently) and the numerous spelling errors ("10505" *cough*) there are some memorable scenes. If 51588's recanting of when 78291 was riding a 14135 through fields of 09134 in glorious 35624 doesn't leave you misty-eyed and smiling then you must not have a heart, frankly. Towards the end of the book the almost poetic description of the loneliness and despair of 67564 when he becomes separated from his true love is a masterpiece (divided by 00000 in a twist I did not see coming).

Look past this book's significant failings and beyond the words on the page and you will discover a world more vibrant than that depicted in Camille Pissaro's painting "Le Boulevard Montmartre, effet de nuit (The Boulevard Montmartre at Night)".
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Mark Pack
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 October 2011
Don't turn to the last page and spoil the book by finding out the ending. Make sure you read from page 1 and let the tension build.
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Ian T.
3.0 out of 5 stars Avoid the second-hand items
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 April 2021
Fool that I am, I tried to save a few quid by buying a second-hand/used copy of this book. Now, whenever I refer to it, I worry that the previous owner has already used those so-called random numbers. I try to assuage my fears by opening the book at random before sampling the digits, but how can I be sure that that is a truly random page and not skewed by being opened there before? Now I need another book of random numbers to remove any residual bias, so this was NOT a good investment.
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JA
5.0 out of 5 stars Hidden game on the last section. You can skim the first section if you want, and come back to it as needed.
Reviewed in Canada on 1 July 2018
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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!
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Cliente Amazon
5.0 out of 5 stars Really good value for money
Reviewed in Italy on 17 June 2017
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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!
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JPMDallas77
5.0 out of 5 stars Compendium?
Reviewed in the United States on 15 February 2010
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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 Amazon.com Comments Section for the Book 'A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates' by the Rand Corporation." Coming soon to Amazon.com.
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B. Dean
5.0 out of 5 stars It has EVERYTHING!
Reviewed in the United States on 7 September 2010
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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?
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Hogan McHugh
5.0 out of 5 stars Bad ending but good otherwise
Reviewed in the United States on 11 October 2020
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Very interesting, starts off slow but picks up and is great until the end, which doesn’t match up.
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