Simulating a die roll by flipping two coins
Abstract
We show how to simulate a roll of a fair $n$-sided die by one flip of a biased coin with probability $1/n$ of coming up heads, followed by $3\lfloor\log_2 n \rfloor+1$ flips of a fair coin.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- May 2015
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1506.00086
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1506.00086
- Bibcode:
- 2015arXiv150600086V
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Combinatorics;
- Computer Science - Discrete Mathematics
- E-Print:
- 2 pages, 0 figures