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Re:How to pick a random number from 1-10 by mongol on Sunday June 30, 2019 @02:45AM (#20316756)
Maybe you don't even need to ask them to think of a number. The person whose name is sorted before the other person's name is person 1. And they compare their lengths instead of thinking of a number?
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Re:How to pick a random number from 1-10 by pdpi on Sunday June 30, 2019 @06:59AM (#20317594)
That gives you a single bit of entropy from those two people instead of a steady stream, though.
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