From Astragalus to Algorithms: What Poker Chips, Blue-Chip Firms, and Ancient Dice Tell Us About Randomness

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Why historians and designers misread ancient gaming tools as primitive randomness When archaeologists unearth a string of small knucklebones or a scattering of colored clay tokens, it is tempting to treat them as straightforward precursors