Now, remember, this book was written in the 1960’s. “Computer” still meant using punch cards.

The author describes a process by which you can generate some randomness for your war game by buying a book of random numbers from Rand. 1) it breaks my brain slightly paying money for random numbers, or for a Rand product (today you can download it here: www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1418.html) 2) the function to generate (pseudo) random numbers in modern computers is often called RAND(). So, we went from Rand (company) to rand (function).

Progress?