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  2. List of fictional sports teams - Wikipedia

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    Miami Gators - 7th Heaven (TV Series) Miami Gators – Back to the Future Part II. Morristown Frackers - Brockmire. Mudville Nine – Casey at the Bat. Myrtle Beach Mermen – Eastbound & Down [4] Neptune Pirates – Veronica Mars. New Orleans Pelicans – Knave of Eagles by Robert Wade [5] [6] New York Americans – Squeeze Play by Paul ...

  3. List of random number generators - Wikipedia

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    However, generally they are considerably slower (typically by a factor 2–10) than fast, non-cryptographic random number generators. These include: Stream ciphers. Popular choices are Salsa20 or ChaCha (often with the number of rounds reduced to 8 for speed), ISAAC, HC-128 and RC4. Block ciphers in counter mode.

  4. List of NFL nicknames - Wikipedia

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    The rule was viewed as a reaction to potential sponsor influence, as no NFL team had considered adopting a non-green surface. [374] The Duke: A nickname for the late Wellington Mara, longtime owner of the New York Giants. The nickname stems from the Duke of Wellington, an actual English hereditary title.

  5. Mersenne Twister - Wikipedia

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    The Mersenne Twister is a general-purpose pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) developed in 1997 by Makoto Matsumoto (松本 眞) and Takuji Nishimura (西村 拓士). Its name derives from the choice of a Mersenne prime as its period length. The Mersenne Twister was designed specifically to rectify most of the flaws found in older PRNGs.

  6. Lottery machine - Wikipedia

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    Lottery machine. A lottery machine is the machine used to draw the winning numbers for a lottery . Early lotteries were done by drawing numbers, or winning tickets, from a container. In the UK, numbers of winning Premium Bonds (which were not strictly a lottery, but very similar in approach) were generated by an electronic machine called ERNIE .

  7. Funny fantasy football team names: The most ridiculous team ...

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    A fantasy football team never looks better than it does before the season, full of stars, breakout candidates and potential league-winners. But, even though the team is sitting pretty post-draft ...

  8. Random.org - Wikipedia

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    Random.org (stylized as RANDOM.ORG) is a website that produces random numbers based on atmospheric noise. In addition to generating random numbers in a specified range and subject to a specified probability distribution, which is the most commonly done activity on the site, it has free tools to simulate events such as flipping coins, shuffling cards, and rolling dice.

  9. Random number generation - Wikipedia

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    When a cubical die is rolled, a random number from 1 to 6 is obtained. Random number generation is a process by which, often by means of a random number generator ( RNG ), a sequence of numbers or symbols that cannot be reasonably predicted better than by random chance is generated. This means that the particular outcome sequence will contain ...