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Re: Are dices for generating seed words fair?
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Medusah
on 15/10/2023, 22:04:54 UTC
⭐ Merited by BlackHatCoiner (4) ,ETFbitcoin (3) ,philipma1957 (1) ,vapourminer (1) ,Husna QA (1) ,DdmrDdmr (1)
So if you have a 51 to 49 percent bias on all your picks it still to the 24th power.

What number are you raising to the 24?

If there is 50.8% chance for heads and 49.2% for tails, then you can calculate the entropy like that:
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H(X) = - P(heads) * log2(P(heads)) - P(tails) * log2(P(tails)) = - 0.508 * log2(0.508) - 0.492 * log2(0.492) = 0.999815327

So tossing a coin gives you 0.999815327 bits of entropy.  If you toss it 256 times, it will give you 255.95 bits which are sufficient.