General Discussion

[Yygdrasil]

Re: General Discussion

TM is correcting Armando's Math? My world is upside-down.

[Mezlo]

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Oh wait unless you hear a drunken Lincolnshire accent...

And if you want to know where Stoke-on-Trent is...

Stoke-on-Trent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ative_2010.png - Map of the regions of England

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ndTownsOMC.png - Map of the UK in general

Is this really the local food of choice?

Oatcake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Yygdrasil]

Re: General Discussion



We're a popular thread today, it seems.

[Armando]

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and you only check for the second event if the first event is a 2.

Derp. I see now, thanks.

[Yygdrasil]

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New career path for TM: Math Teacher

If you can teach Armando something... imagine the things you could teach children! it must be a fluke.

[Armando]

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Technically my math was correct, but my model of the situation was wrong (which is far more important than getting the math right.)

[Firewind]

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d% Rolls are all in some way divisible by 5 so you can use a d20 for them if you want.

Yes rolling 2 d10s produced strange results and there are at least 2 RPGS built around it: Warhammer Fantasy RPG and Dark Heresy (basically the 40k version). Inquisitor used the same system too but Games Workshop couldn't milk it for money so they scrapped it completely.

[Armando]

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Yes rolling 2 d10s produced strange results

Nah, I was wrong. It works as intended. It's still dumb in the context of divible-by-5 %s but it works.

[Taskmage]

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But what if it's super crucial that an event have an exactly 77% chance??

[Firewind]

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Well IIRC, rolling 2 d10s doesn't have an exact 1% chance of rolling any given number between 1 and 100 unless we are considering this over several hundred thousands of rolls (in which case it sort of levels out to a 1% change statistically).

Statistics are funny like that.

Is this really the local food of choice?

Oatcake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yeah they are basically oat pancakes (hence the name) but for savoury things. You can only really get them in Staffordshire though. They're pretty popular for breakfast due to the savoury thing and they are a pretty nice hangover cure. Portable too since you can roll up a couple and pop them into a lunchbox.

[lyulf]

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Math rant
*NUMBERS NUMBERXS BAL:NABDLASJHDGKASNDJHGKK* =D

As fo e pancakes... Sign me up. PANCAKES!!!!

[cidbahamut]

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Yay for pancakes!

[Armando]

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Well IIRC, rolling 2 d10s doesn't have an exact 1% chance of rolling any given number between 1 and 100 unless we are considering this over several hundred thousands of rolls (in which case it sort of levels out to a 1% change statistically).

Nah. The odds of rolling a number XY in the interval [00, 99] is the odds of the tens die rolling X (1/10) times the odds of the ones die rolling Y (1/10). Works out to a perfect 1%. (If I had tried to calculate those odds instead of the odds of rolling under a certain number, I probably wouldn't have derped.)

[Mezlo]

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That's it, Fire UPS me a Ham & Cheese sandwich with some of your pickle spread, and an Oatcake stat!

[Taskmage]

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Nah. The odds of rolling a number XY in the interval [00, 99] is the odds of the tens die rolling X (1/10) times the odds of the ones die rolling Y (1/10). Works out to a perfect 1%. (If I had tried to calculate those odds instead of the odds of rolling under a certain number, I probably wouldn't have derped.)

Which is how we model it, but as we know dice are sentient entities capable of wrath and compassion, which skews the math a bit.