[WarInEur] RE: 0.9.56 bug - Vichy units did not place

[Bruce Denney]

Understood - I know I have rolled a series of 1's many times with dice -
just get leary when a computer actually duplicates real life.

 

Bruce

 

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From: sgminfo [mailto:sgminfo at aol.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 12:19 PM
To: Bruce Denney
Cc: warineur at mailman.halisp.net
Subject: Re: [WarInEur] RE: 0.9.56 bug - Vichy units did not place

 

 Bruce Denney wrote: 

 

Even at that the computer seemed to roll three 1's on a roll before Vichy
was declared. Has there been a statistical study done on the random number
generator? I have no actual statistics but it seems that there are a lot of
either 1;s of 6's - no proof - just a gut feeling.


Well as far as our own gut feelings go, it does seem to be pretty random.
One of the first things tested was whether you could rerun a turn and get
the same result.

We found that we could not...

Which made the cheating situation very much more implausable, somebody
attempting that would have one hell of a workload if he was stringing
together more than a single attack, so i tend to think (if they are daft
enough to do that 208turns x 9 or 10 attempts needing to rerun each turn,
puts them in aworkload that may result in their death of old age (or  a worn
out machine) if they have to do that.
:-)


-|steve|-

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