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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Generating a seed phrase with biased dice
by
Pmalek
on 24/10/2023, 18:12:23 UTC
That is why o_e_l_e_o suggests to use von Neumann's method.  It eliminates that bias: https://xlinux.nist.gov/dads/HTML/vonNeumannCoinFlip.html
Mathematics, formulas, and algorithms have never been my strong suit, but why is this considered random if you are specifically looking for only 2/4 combinations after a set of two coin flips, without considering the other two combinations? Heads-Tails and Tails-Heads are ok, while Heads-Heads and Tails-Tails aren't. Randomness should allow all possible combinations, it's just that humans can't generate it.