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Description: Flip a coin that harnesses the inherent randomness of the universe (and learn about Quantum Computing too)
What's going on? If you clicked that coin, you just witnessed a quantum coin flip; the most random coin flip on the internet.
How do computers pick (pseudo)random numbers? While this task is seemingly simple, there’s a whole world of complexity beneath the surface. This complex stuff matters.
Computers are built on ‘bits’, or little electrical switches that can be either on or off. In a sense, computers are valuable only because they are NOT random at all. Chip processors have invested billions over decades to ensure that their bits are completely deterministic so that our cat videos will load reliably.
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