Usually, spreadsheets are used to store actual business data - not randomized information. But spreadsheets can still be useful to generate random numbers in Excel. Random data can be used as input to ...

Because computers don't understand words or phrases in the same way people can, they speak a language of their own, using only two symbols: 0 and 1. This computing parlance is known as binary code, ...

Putting a list into random order might seem like an unusual task, but it can be quite useful for many businesses. For example, you might want to randomly assign leads to salespeople, assign jobs to ...

Whether it’s a game of D&D or encrypting top-secret information, a wide array of methods are available for generating the needed random numbers with high enough entropy for their use case. For a ...

An Apple Insider report suggests that the company is randomizing its Web order numbers to keep people from guessing how many iPad 2 units it's sold. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers ...