Hi, If I recall, for a binomial distribution with n=100, p=.5 and q=.5, the standard deviation is sqrt(n*p*q) = 5. So having gnubg start first 80 times represents 6 standard deviations above the mean. The probability of this happening by chance is very, very small!
Maybe you were simply very, very unlucky. Or maybe your memory is fooling you. For my dice generation, I use a random number generator (Mersenne Twister). I have no sense that gnubg wins the first roll more than I do, and I have played hundreds (maybe thousands) of games. Louis On Jan 25, 2010, at 7:07 AM, Filipa Andrade wrote: > Hi, > > I am playing against gnubg in grandmaster level with 3ply. > I find it strange that only around 20% of the times I start. 80% is gnubg > that starts. Is it normal? I have made a sample of more than 100 games. > I a normal 7 games match it happens often that I never get to start first. > Which are the best dice settings? > > Thank you for your help and thank you so much for gnubg, I am learning a lot! > _______________________________________________ > Bug-gnubg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg _______________________________________________ Bug-gnubg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg
