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mankapo
4y

Guaranteed to be random.

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  • 16
    I recall a story where someone wrote a bot for what I think was IRC. It it would do some dice programmed dice roll so folks could play D&D over IRC.

    It was "pretty random".

    But he got so many complaints about numbers coming up multiple times in a row....

    He got tired of explaining that the same number coming up multiple times in a row is not necessarily 'not random'. But the complaints kept coming.

    So he changed it to not duplicate a number in a row too often ...

    His users were then much happier, even if it was now somewhat less random.
  • 1
    Before this code was found, no one could prove that it was not random, getting 4 everytime is also random. And, it won't break any code.
  • 0
    yes yes yes yes
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