Author: admin
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Trac Setup
Redmine ended up being a bust due to Debian shipping a version of ruby (1.8.7) that is incompatible with Ruby on Rails. Apparently it doesn’t work above 1.8.6. I am impressed that a language’s flagship application gets broken by a point release and no one seems to have anything to say about it other than…
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Dice Rolling 2
In the last piece I wrote, I was describing how I was trying to make a tool to efficiently calculate the probability of rolling or exceeding a particular sum on a number of dice. I had gotten as far as a recursive solution which allowed me to roll any number of `s`-sided dice, but which…
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Dice Rolling
To start with, I am going to retell the tale of some dice rolling statistics I spent time calculating circa October 2006. My demonstration code is in Python, because it’s fairly legible even if you aren’t familiar with it. ### Intro I like to play games, and playing games often requires one to roll dice.…