[extropy-chat] alt dot fair dice

[KPJ]

It appears as if Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:
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|> I happen to have a kit of those there.  Let's see...
|> 
|>   1d4, 1d6, 1d8, 1d12, 2d10, 1d20
|
|BTW: I found a Palm application that simulates 4,6, 8, 10, 12, 20, and
|100 sided dice. It is called "Dice Man". It is by Bits 'n Bolts
|Software, and can be found at http://www.bitsnbolts.com as freeware.
|Have fun! You might contact them about allowing the user to create any
|sided die they need. This might be accomplished by adding a division
|modifier to the plus and minus. Then you could divide the d10 by two
|and get a 5d simulated.

In the Olden Days during the 2nd millenium when I was into AD&D we wrote
a BASIC program on a timesharing system to print out simulated dice values
using pseudorandom numbers.

The printing was done overnight since machines were much slower then and
microchips, and thus personal computers, had not been invented yet.

Today, some people use their wearables to play Dungeon & Dragons immersed
in the real world (augmented reality).  No dice needed.