Negative Space: randomness
- Are my dice random?
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My d20 appears to have been rolling a lot of ones, a disaster if I were playing D&D but a boon for Gods & Monsters. Is my die really random, or is it skewed towards a particular result? Use the ‘R’ open source statistics tool to find out.
- How random is Python’s random?
- Can you trust a script’s random number generator to actually be random?
- The Marvels of Chance
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Why does it seem cool when we roll maximums? Because it is cool.
- Random colors in your ASCII art
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One of the great things about writing your own scripts is that when you need new functionality, you can add it. I needed random colors in a single-character ASCII art image. It was easy to add to the asciiArt script. Here’s how.
- While sorrowful dogs brood: The TRS-80 Model 100 Poet
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Random poetry: a BASIC random primer and a READ/DATA/STRINGS primer, for the TRS-80 Model 100.
