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The complexity of random-number generation is well-known to programmers, but the inability to generate random numbers for "real-life" selection algorithms has had major life-or-death implications:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft_lottery_(1969)https://en...

> People soon noticed that the lottery numbers were not distributed uniformly over the year. In particular, November and December births, or dates 306 to 366, were assigned mainly to lower draft numbers representing earlier calls to serve...Analysis of the procedure suggested that mixing 366 capsules in the shoe box did not mix them sufficiently before dumping them into the jar.