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Is there an extension to biased objects of more sides, say a die?

• contravariant 9y ago
  You could wait until you got a run of all possible sides, but that could take a while.
• Steko 9y ago
  I think if you do 6 rolls and take the sum modulo 6 it works. edit: no, got confused with something else (game I used to play was subject to widespread paranoia about the dice including the RNG source and whether other players had hacks. The dev ended up jumping thru all sorts of hoops to satisfy people -- taking random.org, letting each client add their own modifier and then using VN) I think the straightforward way to extend VN is rolling 6 dice and reroll all if there are any duplicates, then use the first one (or whatever). Probably more efficient to turn the die into a coin and then use a few coins to approximate the die.
  • kobeya 9y ago
    That would depend on get probability distribution I think.
• buzzdenver 9y ago
  Just divide the sides into two groups. For example: (1, 2, 5, 6) -> heads (3, 4) -> tails And use Neumann's algo.