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  2. List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and subatomic ...

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    It can also be worked into other forms with unusual properties such as reflecting only the light of the Moon. The fictional metal has appeared in other fantasy universes, games, and books. "Mythril" appears in the video game series Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts. "Mithral" is used in D&D books; "Milrith" in Simon the Sorcerer.

  3. Diceware - Wikipedia

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    Diceware is a method for creating passphrases, passwords, and other cryptographic variables using ordinary dice as a hardware random number generator. For each word in the passphrase, five rolls of a six-sided die are required. The numbers from 1 to 6 that come up in the rolls are assembled as a five-digit number, e.g. 43146.

  4. Fortuna (PRNG) - Wikipedia

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    Fortuna (PRNG) Fortuna is a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator (CS-PRNG) devised by Bruce Schneier and Niels Ferguson and published in 2003. It is named after Fortuna, the Roman goddess of chance. FreeBSD uses Fortuna for /dev/random and /dev/urandom is symbolically linked to it since FreeBSD 11. [1]

  5. List of fantasy worlds - Wikipedia

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    A kingdom that is the main setting of The Legend of Zelda franchise. The Legend of Zelda. 1986. A C N T V. Ivalice. Yasumi Matsuno. Setting of multiple video games, including Final Fantasy Tactics, Vagrant Story, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, and Final Fantasy XII. Final Fantasy Tactics. 1997.

  6. Numenera - Wikipedia

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    Technology. The name "Numenera" is a reference to the bits of technology left over from past civilizations. The word "numen" is a Latin root word meaning a "pervading divine presence" [6] and "era" refers to the period (1 billion years in the future) in which this universe takes place.

  7. List of fictional secret police and intelligence organizations

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    Agency Info Source Source type Black Priests: Kzin: Larry Niven's Known Space series: Book Blue Rose: Top secret joint task force of the U. S. military and Federal Bureau of Investigation that investigates cases of a paranormal nature, including doppelgangers, mysterious disappearances and the Black and White Lodges.

  8. Hardware random number generator - Wikipedia

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    A USB-pluggable hardware true random number generator. In computing, a hardware random number generator (HRNG), true random number generator (TRNG), non-deterministic random bit generator (NRBG), [1] or physical random number generator [2] [3] is a device that generates random numbers from a physical process capable of producing entropy (in other words, the device always has access to a ...

  9. Infinite monkey theorem - Wikipedia

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    Due to processing power limitations, the program used a probabilistic model (by using a random number generator or RNG) instead of actually generating random text and comparing it to Shakespeare. When the simulator "detected a match" (that is, the RNG generated a certain value or a value within a certain range), the simulator simulated the ...