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Uhh ... Musky? ellem was making all 1's into 2's. Your code doesn't do that. :-)

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Re: Re: Re: Remove lowest number
by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on Aug 06, 2003 at 15:55 UTC

    I know :-)
    I don't use "fixed" dice.

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      Sadly this was done because I couldn't figure out a way to reroll 1s.

      (you can see it but I filled with shame)
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      There's more than one way to do it, but only some of them actually work.
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        my $onetosix = int(rand(6) + 1);

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        rand will take its argument, and return a number somewhere between 0 and n-1 (0 -> 5 in this case). Actually it will return, though I'm not sure to what decimal depth, a random fractional number (0.0* -> 5.9*). Applying int() to the result causes it to round the fractional to a whole number. Then we add one.

        use perl;

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