Re:How to choose?
by baddox on Friday August 29, 2014 @03:43AM
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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.
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> 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?