What percentage is luck involved in a games outcome?

[frood]

@Romulus:

Ender, I do not know how frood.net/aacalc/ roll the dice.
I am not saying that they are wrong in rolling.

Sometime I use pseudo random number in Java and I used them in C/C++.
Being the computer unable to make random choices there are pseudo random sequences that are used.
A pseudo random sequence is a sequence of number built in order to be as near is possible to a Gaussian distribution. So sometime the results may “suffer” from periodic effects.

But frood.net/aacalc may use another method to generate the random number singularly. In which case the “rolled” numbers are completely random.

It rolls the dice one at a time using the mt_rand() function in PHP, which is reportedly better than the regular rand() function (or is it random()?). Each time it rolls it takes the time in microseconds as a random number seed that mt_rand uses to do what ever it does and creates a random number from 1-6. That’s as much as I can tell you, cuz I don’t know anything more about it.

[Romulus]

@Ender:

It rolls the dice one at a time using the mt_rand() function in PHP, which is reportedly better than the regular rand() function (or is it random()?). Each time it rolls it takes the time in microseconds as a random number seed that mt_rand uses to do what ever it does and creates a random number from 1-6. That’s as much as I can tell you, cuz I don’t know anything more about it.

It is more than sufficient to understood how its work!

mt_rand() should “randomize”, using the time as seed, every time the number a number is generated. Randomize means initialize the random generator, so as you already said each number generated is completely independent form the preceding!

Tanhs Ender!

[frood]

I’ve just wondered how it works that when the dice are rolled within the same microsecond as each other, so the same time seed, that it rolls a different number.  :?

[Romulus]

I suppose that such operation are “serialized”, i.e. executed one after the other even if for us they appear simultaneous. Is one of the things that makes computers so intriguing!

[cyan]

Whats with everyone changing there name? First Jenn and now you Frod. I like it anyways.

[newpaintbrush]

@cyan:

Whats with everyone changing there name? First Jenn and now you Frod. I like it anyways.

we are training in teh wayz of ninjazorz

poof

[frood]

@Commander:

@cyan:

Whats with everyone changing there name? First Jenn and now you Frod. I like it anyways.

we are training in teh wayz of ninjazorz

poof

That should be Emperor Ender Ivanova perhaps?

[Guest]

I just can;t bring myself to give up my Avatar…

Though the name, I am ready to change…  The trouble is, the name change would demand a new Avatar as well…  So I am stuck…

[cyan]

I’m just lazy. i used to change my avatar with each promotion.

[Guest]

Yes, but former USAFA Zoomie Pride is tied up in mine…

[cyan]

i just realized i’m a bomber! yeah

[frood]

@ncscswitch:

I just can;t bring myself to give up my Avatar…

Though the name, I am ready to change…  The trouble is, the name change would demand a new Avatar as well…  So I am stuck…

I don’t see why you’d have to change both - and besides, ncscswitch is hard to remember how to spell, let alone pronounce… can’t you cook up some cool pagan name. I’ll just call you Bacchus.

[Guest]

I may surprise you all soon…

I am less than an hour away from logging 100 DAYS of active posting on the site (in 2 years).  That may be worth an update…