People who love numbers — truly love them — needn’t hesitate when asked the question: "What is your favourite book?" There is only one possible answer: A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates, published by the Rand Corporation in 1955…
So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian.
[And a further note. The Rand Corporation has put a PDF version of the book onto its web site. Thanks to Dan Valente for bringing this to our attention.]