WISDOM IN THE CONTEXT OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST Every culture, ancient and modern, has developed its own wisdom, and recorded much of it in literature. Such wisdom can be based on human experience from which people learn what is in life and how to deal with it. There are written storehouses of wisdom from many different cultures in which human experiences are crystallized and typically abstracte...

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There is a huge demand for “random” bits. Random number generators use software or physical processes to produce “random” bits. While it is known that programs cannot produce high-quality randomness—their bits are pseudorandom—other methods claim to produce “true” or “perfect” random sequences. Such claims are made for quantum random generators, but, if true, can they be proved? This paper disc...