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Keywords: Goddess, Luck, Tyche, Roman, Prng

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the goddess of fortune and good luck; counterpart of Greek Tyche.

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In Roman mythology, goddess of fortune, chance and luck.

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Roman goddess of luck and good fortune.

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an Italian goddess who was the bringer of fertility and increase.

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In Roman mythology, Fortuna (equivalent to the Greek goddess Tyche) was the personification of luck, hopefully of good luck, but she could be represented veiled and blind, as modern depictions of Justice are seen, and came to represent the capriciousness of life. She is also a goddess of fate.

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Fortuna is a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) devised by Bruce Schneier and Niels Ferguson. It is named for Fortuna, the Roman goddess of chance.

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