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From: Ian S. Small
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1988 09:43
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1988 09:43
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After a couple of comments in a recent Sun-Spots regarding the potentially dishonourable conduct of gammontool, I decided to spend some (very small amount of) time examining the source. Based on ten minutes investigation, I can report to all the frustrated gammontool users out in netland that it does not appear that gammontool cheats. This is based on the observation that the die rolls (generated with the incantation "random() % 6 + 1") are displayed on the screen before they are sent to the strategy modules for determining where the computer should move. Therefore, unless the die rolls change on the screen while you watch, it seems unlikely that the computer is cheating by modifying or influencing the die rolls. It just seems that computers are *very* lucky sometimes... Ian S. Small Dynamic Graphics Project Computer Systems Research Institute University of Toronto (416) 978-6619 Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4 BITNET: ian@dgp.utoronto EAN: ian@dgp.toronto.cdn UUCP/CSNET: ian@dgp.toronto.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rice!sun-spots-request From: ian@dgp.toronto.edu (Ian S. Small) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: gammontool Message-ID: <8811141625.AA09083@champlain.dgp.toronto.edu> Date: 23 Nov 88 09:43:43 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Reply-To: Sun-Spots@Rice.edu Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas Lines: 23 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Mon, 14 Nov 88 11:25:18 EST X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 24, message 12 of 12