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StephenB
| Quote | —Acipenser: “Got it, Upbed, StephenB means what he says except when he doesn’t and somehow his ignorance of basic dice roiling probabilities is too be ignored. Too funny.
If you will recall, the context of my statement was to emaphasze the importance of randomness, the requirement of which is to give each side of each die a fair chance of coming up.
Thus, I was not talking about the normal distribution [sic] of numbers, of which seven is the central tendency. If I had known readers would be trying to interpret it that way, I probably would have dramatized the distinction.
However, I have already had that discussion with Mung on another occasion, in which he insisted that seven was more likely to come up than all numbers combined. Naturally, I corrected him, indicating the seven is more likely to come up than any other individual number.
So, if I had not been aware of the difference, I would not have been able to issue the corrective. Naturally, Mung ignored the corrective as if it hadn’t happened. |
So much for coming clean. 
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