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Hussein Yahfoufi
7,070 PointsAre the odds even? Seems like some dice numbers (2, 4, 5) have better odds than others?
Are the odds even? Seems like some dice numbers (2, 4, 5) have better odds than others?
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David Kanwisher
9,751 Pointshttp://muller.lbl.gov/teaching/Physics10/old%20physics%2010/chapters%20(old)/4-Randomness.htm
If black has hit 5 times in a row on a roulette table, our perceptions say that "red" is due to hit. But in fact, this isn't true.
Sometimes when we think of generating random numbers between 1 and 6, we think that we will see each number about equally with looking at a small sample size.
For example: (I simply just typed these) 1 3 5 6 2 4 3 2 6
But in reality it can be much different: (I randomly generated these)
6 1 5 3 3 3 3 2 2
Daniel Box
1,939 PointsDaniel Box
1,939 PointsHi Hussein, while Math.random() returns only a pseudo-random number, for most cases you can treat the value returned as accurately random. So in the case the odds should be equal and anything seeming otherwise only a short term aberration.