Even the fathers of statistical science forgot that a random series is bound to exhibit some pattern... Pearson was among the first scholars interest… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Even the fathers of statistical science forgot that a random series is bound to exhibit some pattern... Pearson was among the first scholars interested in creating artificial random number generators, tables one could use as inputs for... simulations (precursors of our Monte Carlo simulator). ...[T]hey did not want these tables to exhibit... regularity. Yet real randomness does not look random! ...A single random run is bound to exhibit some pattern ...