On May 13, security advisories published by Debian and Ubuntu revealed that, for over a year, their OpenSSL libraries have had a major flaw in their CSPRNG, which is used by key generation functions in many widely-used applications, which caused the "random" numbers produced to be extremely predictable. [lolcat summary]
posted on May 16, 2008 - View this thread

The Prime Game is not really much of a game, but it is a neat & little-known fact about the decimal representation of prime numbers.
posted on Jul 10, 2007 - View this thread

Mysterious number 6174. An excellent recreational math article.
posted on Jan 13, 2007 - View this thread

Significance of numbers. Not to be confused with the concept of "significant figures," this page lists the significance of numbers 0 through 1000. See! "2 is the only even prime." Hear! "24 is the largest number divisible by all numbers less than its square root." Thrill! "3367 is the smallest number which can be written as the difference of 2 cubes in 3 ways." Whoa!
posted on Nov 11, 2005 - View this thread

Number Spirals: Coincidences of order. "In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them."
posted on Apr 15, 2004 - View this thread

This post is about nothing. Zip. Zero. Zilch. Nada.
posted on Sep 29, 2003 - View this thread

LavaRand ...harnessing the power of Lava Lite® lamps to generate truly random numbers....

That's a bold statement, but who am I to doubt the power of the lava lamp. The mathematical purist may disagree with the "truely random" part, but this geek speak convinced me that LavaRand can handle all my random number needs.
posted on Apr 30, 2001 - View this thread

Mathematician Bums Out Entire Scientific Community His "Omega" number--infinite and incalculable--guts hopes for pure mathematics, physicists' hopes for a Theory of Everything, and is just in general kind of bafflingly cool. Builds on the whole Godel/Turing foundation of hopelessness!
posted on Mar 15, 2001 - View this thread