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punnerud on Dec 15, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Using loaded dice to cheat at Settlers of Catan, a...

Could it be that your dice was biased to begin with? Or have you already rolled them ~5000 times before you placed them in water?

askvictor on Dec 15, 2017 [–]

I was wondering this; is a control unnecessary here as we assume an equal distribution, or is that assumption false?

punnerud on Dec 15, 2017 | [–]

I think it’s false because every mechanical device have some variation, but is it so small it can don’t “affect” the result?

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