(This article was first published on SAS and R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)
Do the digits of Pi appear in a random order? If so, the trillions of digits of Pi calculated can serve as a useful random number generator. This post was inspired by this entry on Matt Asher's blog. Generating pseudo-random numbers is a key piece of much of modern statistical practice, whether for Markov chain Monte Carlo applications or simpler simulations of what raw data would look like To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on his blog: SAS and R.
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