* Astronomy

Do you believe the Universe is really random?
Random number generation is a thorny issue for the gambling industry as a whole, but more so for the online gambling industry. The element of randomness is essential to casino games - it is in fact part of what defines them as such, along with a stake and a prize. Everyone has seen a Hollywood film in which a roulette wheel, for example, has been fixed to ensure that the ball will drop in a particular numbered slot, but by and large physical phenomena, chaos theory aside, are sufficiently random to satisfy your average gambler.
Computer software changes this relationship between the gambler and the random number generator. Computers, and the code that run them, are inherently deterministic, and true random number generation is impossible.

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