the first attempt to crate a large amount of random numbers was in 1927. this was when cambridge university press put out a list of 41,600 numbers made by l.h.c. tippett. in 1947, the rand corporation created random numbers by simulating a roulette wheel using a computer. the results were published in 1955 with the title of, ""a million random digits with 100,000 normal deviates"."