[CoLoCo] dice rolls in C

[TJ Heaney]

Most of my insight comes from the gamer point of view.

I've noticed that some gamers tend to hit a cluster of numbers more often
than any other, again, it's not really a proven thing, just a tendency
observation, no real data to back it up.

These clusters don't always fit with the bell curve I am anticipating, for
example, some times I've been "hot on the dice" and rolling nothing but
17-20s for a session, then other times nothing but crap on the dice. More of
a weird phenomenon than anything.

I recall talking with a friend about setting up an experiment using gamers
and non-gamers, wherein the purpose is to determine if one type of person is
able to influence the outcome of a roll versus another, basically taking
gamers and non-gamers, and have them roll a die X amounts of times, being
told that they want to try for a certain number (for example a natural 20).

That's all I remember of it really, it was like 3 AM when we talked about
it, so my memory is fuzzy.

On Feb 9, 2008 1:42 PM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org> wrote:

> On Feb 9, 2008 12:10 PM, TJ Heaney <tjheaney at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Ok, I am getting confused as to the end result....
>
> Sorry about that. Part of the problem is we don't have a clear idea of
> the end result yet. In short, we are trying to devise a way to test
> pseudo-RNGs and see if they are as good as true-RNGs. This is a 6th
> grade science fair project my daughter is working on. The idea was to
> generate random dice rolls and compare the results.
>
> In fact, because she is supposed to be doing the work and not me, I'm
> going to have her ask the question here so watch for her email.
>
> >
> > Is this supposed to be something like a RPG tool?
>
> Yes
>
> >
> > So 2D10 would yield results ranging from 2 - 20
>
> Correct
>
> >
> > And since (rand(10)) generates a number from 0-9, we add the 1 to the
> value
> > to get 1 -10, right?
>
> Yes
>
>
> >
> > I'm watching because now I am curious and want to make sure I understand
> > what is going on :)
>
> If you have any insight please share.
>
> Thanks,
> -jim
>
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