The Quantum Quest for a Perfectly Random d20

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Start, restart, or continue your college journey with Study Hall! Take a college course that starts on YouTube and earn credit before you even apply to college. Go to https://link.gostudyhall.com/scistats to learn more. Have you ever wanted to put your virtual d20 in "dice jail" after an unlikely series of truly terrible rolls? Does Spotify's latest shuffle algorithm not seem random enough to you? This episode is all about RNGs and random number generation — why we don't always want true randomness, and how we can get truly random numbers when we do. Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him) ---------- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow Or support us directly: https://complexly.com/support Join our SciShow email list to get the latest news and highlights: https://mailchi.mp/scishow/email ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Jaap Westera, Alex Hackman, Blood Doctor Kelly, Toyas Dhake, Matt Curls, Piya Shedden, Jason A Saslow, Kevin Knupp, J.V. Rosenbalm, Garrett Galloway, Steve Gums, David Johnston, Bethany Matthews, Chris Curry, Chris Peters, Chris Mackey, Jeremy Mattern, Adam Brainard, Kevin Bealer, Alan Wong, Joseph Ruf, Lyndsay Brown, Cye Stoner, Jp Lynch, Eric Jensen, Friso ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow Instagram

Published 2025-11-24 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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