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Re:Show HN: A Set of Dice That Follows the Gambler's Fallacy by ProgrammerMatt on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @02:52PM (#14806830)
Can someone explain to me why there is such a large discrepancy for the different sides for math.random()? seems fairly large
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Re:Show HN: A Set of Dice That Follows the Gambler's Fallacy by xori on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @03:14PM (#14807027)
It's actually not that bad. The graph just emphasises the subtle differences. The worst one (a 10) was rolled 696 times extra over the expected number of 100,000 rolls. That's like 0.3% deviation.
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Re:Show HN: A Set of Dice That Follows the Gambler's Fallacy by marcofiset on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @03:28PM (#14807152)
Looking at the Y axis scale shows that the variation is not as much as it seems.
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