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A rubber duck race is a type of festival where thousands of rubber ducks race on a river, usually within the city. They are often fundraising events where the ducks are given numbers associated with participants so that ducks that perform well win a prize for the associated participant.
It originally appeared in the Donald Duck Disney comic "Flip Decision" [1] [2] by Carl Barks, published in 1953. Barks called a practitioner of "flipism" a "flippist". [3] [4] An actual coin is not necessary: dice or another random generator may be used for decision making.
A flying duck race [1] (Indonesian: Pacu Itiak) is a tradition in Payakumbuh, West Sumatra [2] where ducks fly towards a specified finish line. [2] Young female ducks (4–6 months old) that cannot fully fly are used, and ducks are numbered on their bills. Races cover distances ranging from 600 to 2,000 metres (2,000 to 6,600 ft). [2]
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Dice are an example of a mechanical hardware random number generator. When a cubical die is rolled, a random number from 1 to 6 is obtained. Random number generation is a process by which, often by means of a random number generator (RNG), a sequence of numbers or symbols is generated that cannot be reasonably predicted better than by random chance.
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On Wikipedia and other sites running on MediaWiki, Special:Random can be used to access a random article in the main namespace; this feature is useful as a tool to generate a random article. Depending on your browser, it's also possible to load a random page using a keyboard shortcut (in Firefox , Edge , and Chrome Alt-Shift + X ).