On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 12:19 +0930, Glen Turner wrote:

>    If you find youself being dragged along by the Dungeons and Dragons
>    crowd to the shops one day, then grab a pair of 16-sided dice. Each
>    throw will give one byte of randomness for keys.]
Should that closing bracket have been a smiley?
Surely a fair die could have only 4, 6, 8, 12 or 20 faces.
I guess one solution would be to throw three dice consisting of two
octahedrons and a tetrahedron and multiply the results. Is there a more
elegant solution?

cheers,
Ken


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