Re:How to choose?
by valleyer on Friday August 29, 2014 @03:33AM
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The last digit on the clock can only be 0 through 9. If you truncate your chart accordingly, 0 and 1 are represented more than 2 and 3. Or do you mean “the entire seconds value” (for which this idea would work with four children) instead of “the last digit”?
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To avoid confusion, I used the expression "last digits".
It actually doesn't matter how many options are in your random number generator. You only get a normal distribution if the number of children you have divides the number of options in your generator. Even if you're using the seconds of a clock, it doesn't work for 7 children.
> It actually doesn't matter how many options are in your random number generator.
It certainly does -- the larger the random number, the fairer the outcome is.
> Even if you're using the seconds of a clock, it doesn't work for 7 children.
For a digits range of 0 - 59? Plus the fallback in the face of a precocious child of adding the number of minutes * 60?