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by tomcam 709 days ago
> And also this book from 1947 with ONE MILLION random digits

Used to read this to my kids at night, a thousand digits at a time. I really loved the digits at positions 121,443 and 761,890.

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From the introduction:

These tables were reproduced by photo-offset from pages printed by the IBM model 856 Cardatype. Because of the very nature of the tables, it did not seem necessary to proofread every page of the final manuscript in order to catch random errors of the Cardatype.