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Re:How to pick a random number from 1-10 by FabHK on Saturday June 29, 2019 @09:59PM (#20315938)
But the original post described rejection sampling (once you got your bits from the larger/smaller trick).
Re:How to pick a random number from 1-10 by frankmcsherry on Saturday June 29, 2019 @10:40PM (#20316029)
Absolutely! I read the von Neumann extractor and presumed too much. For fun, you can reduce the numbers asked by getting a batch of k people, and if all numbers are dissimilar you get a draw from k!

The OP is silly though; if you know the distribution there are way better techniques. They don't seem to worry about how they measure it.