[Cryptography] All dice are loaded?
Stephan Neuhaus
stephan.neuhaus at tik.ee.ethz.ch
Fri Aug 8 03:35:10 EDT 2014
On 2014-08-07, 23:21, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> It's somewhat common to throw a set of dice to generate a "good enough"
> random number, or at least a seed. However, they appear to have a slight
> bias in favour of "6", due to the pattern of the dimples.
On a philosophical note, indeed all dice are loaded. They have to be.
If all the sides were the same, we couldn't say which face was up.
Fun,
Stephan
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