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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: How can you verify the randomness that's coming from a hardware?
by
NotATether
on 08/05/2022, 07:38:47 UTC
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If you wanted to be even more random - evenly distributed and independent - with dice, you could get a 20-sided dice but then collect the data in base-2 by saying every even number was 1 and odd number was zero,


The thing is, a 20 sided dice has more biases than a 6 sided dice. The more sides the more bias. So that might not be a good idea.

Be very careful about the kind of dice you use because some brands of 6-sided dice are intentionally biased for larger numbers. In any case I suppose that a 2-sided dice (i.e. a coin) has the least bias of them all, and for this particular application has the benefit of being a factor of 256 (exactly 256 tosses).