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I agree entirely. Furthermore it's fairly trivial to build a good entropy source into these machines if they wanted to, rather than relying on a PRNG. ChaosKe
by newnewpdro 8y ago
I agree entirely.
Furthermore it's fairly trivial to build a good entropy source into these machines if they wanted to, rather than relying on a PRNG. ChaosKey [1] immediately comes to mind as one example.
[1] https://altusmetrum.org/ChaosKey/ https://altusmetrum.org/ChaosKey/
- jacquesm 8y agoYou'd probably be surprised to hear that a PRNG is a requirement rather than an economy thing. The behavior of the machine is supposed to be deterministic and an actual random number generator would not be and hence could conceivably pay out less than the legal minimum for an extended period of time, leaving the casino owner then position of having to say it's 'random chance' that the customers aren't winning enough.
- newnewpdro 8y agoThat is surprising, considering elsewhere in the casino people are using rolled dice for random number generation.
- jacquesm 8y agoRolled dice are audited to ensure they are fair, the manufacture of such dice is pretty strictly controlled. It's hard to cheat with such dice without the cheating becoming obvious after a number of rolls. But for slot machines - essentially special purpose computers - such cheating would be trivial and hard to detect. And so regulators made sure that you don't have the 'but it's random' excuse for a machine that never pays out.