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From: Byron Ellacott <bje@apnic.net>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:48:41 +1000
References: [1] [2] <-newest
Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 10:31, Byron Ellacott wrote:
> You shouldn't need to store state. Rolling 2d6 gives a gaussian
> distribution, but 1d6 is a "flat" distribution. Yes, I'm aware
> that
... sorry, not gaussian, it's a rough approximation of a normal
distribution.
--
bje, not speaking for my employer, but apparently speaking without
thought
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