[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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