Last night, I dreamed of a novel algorithm for deriving a fair (i.e. uniformly distributed) coin from a biased one.
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@St_Rev probably, I can't seem to find it with a quick google. It was a little applet that spit out how many flips you need -
@drethelin It's obv. how to do d4 or d8. For d6 do d8 and ignore results of 7 and 8. etc. etc. -
@St_Rev@drethelin weird implication: on average you need more coinflips for d6 than for d8. -
@emareaf@drethelin Well, you can improve it by doing 2 flips and starting over if you get 2 heads.
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