Re: Simulating the rolling of dices to produce truly random numbers?

[Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>]

On Thu, 11 Jan 2018 04:45:27 -0800 (PST), AdaMagica
<christ-usch.grein@t-online.de> declaimed the following:

>Am Mittwoch, 10. Januar 2018 23:54:46 UTC+1 schrieb Mace Ayres:
>> If I choose n among the set 1..500, based on my own sense of randomness, is that random?
>
>Depends on how you choose. If you take 500 cards and shuffle suffiently after each choice, the outcome depends on your shuffling skills. Result might be quite random.
>

	Don't know if it applies with 500 cards... but 8 perfect riffle
shuffles with a standard 52 card deck will restore the deck to its starting
arrangement -- so no randomness there. One could probably argue that any
number of perfect riffles won't add randomness <G>
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