randomness
noun
ran·dom·ness
ˈran-dəm-nəs 
: the quality or state of being or seeming random (as in lacking or seeming to lack a definite plan, purpose, or pattern)
… the metaphor of a coin flip for randomness remains unquestioned. We use coin tosses to settle disputes and decide outcomes because we believe they are unbiased, with 50-50 odds. Yet recent research into coin flips has discovered that the laws of mechanics determine the outcome of coin tosses …—
David E. Adler
David E. Adlerthe randomness of life
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Patients who use cutting-edge technologies like PGT-A have to grapple with both realities, confronting both the randomness of reproduction and the fact that research on add-on tests like PGT-A is happening simultaneously to the tests being offered.
—Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 6 Mar. 2025
But Wrigley was such an extreme pitcher’s park last year — something that appeared to be more about randomness and the wind blowing in at an extreme rate than a real trend — that Busch was just one of many Cubs to suffer at home.
—Sahadev Sharma, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
Because of the randomness of RFI and the difficulty in tracking such signals back to their sources, modeling the interference so that it can be filtered out has turned out to be a next-to-impossible task.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 17 Feb. 2025
Meanwhile, Cook and Mertz’s results have galvanized interest in catalytic computing, with new works exploring connections to randomness (opens a new tab) and the effects of allowing a few (opens a new tab) mistakes (opens a new tab) in resetting the full memory to its original state.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2025
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Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 6 Mar. 2025
But Wrigley was such an extreme pitcher’s park last year — something that appeared to be more about randomness and the wind blowing in at an extreme rate than a real trend — that Busch was just one of many Cubs to suffer at home.
—Sahadev Sharma, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
Because of the randomness of RFI and the difficulty in tracking such signals back to their sources, modeling the interference so that it can be filtered out has turned out to be a next-to-impossible task.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 17 Feb. 2025
Meanwhile, Cook and Mertz’s results have galvanized interest in catalytic computing, with new works exploring connections to randomness (opens a new tab) and the effects of allowing a few (opens a new tab) mistakes (opens a new tab) in resetting the full memory to its original state.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2025
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“Randomness.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/randomness. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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