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ThinkSome
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"random"

#1 Post by ThinkSome »

Can someone please explain to me how this is considered random? L29Ah's ship's ARCs were stuck hitting mostly the same target in each of the 3 subturns!
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Has anyone ran randomness tests against this "random" number generator?

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Oberlus
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Re: "random"

#2 Post by Oberlus »

ThinkSome wrote: Fri Apr 24, 2020 4:55 pm Can someone please explain to me how this is considered random? L29Ah's ship's ARCs were stuck hitting mostly the same target in each of the 3 subturns!
Shit happens?
Random is not necessarily "relatively uniform".
Has anyone ran randomness tests against this "random" number generator?
Can you?

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