On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Steven S. Klug wrote:

>
> Of course, if you were bright and immoral.. you could
> simply do this twice, assuming you were group leader.
> Just make a few macros for some fake seed generations..
> just like you would for the roll.
>
> Cheetr says 'Blah, blah... Here's the seed..'_______
> Cheetr could have rolled any number from 1 to 1000
> but this time he made sure it was a 734.
>
> With equivalent macros for the results:
>
> Cheetr says 'Blah, blah... I hope I win.'_______
> Cheetr could have rolled any number from 1 to 734
> but this time he made sure it was a 720.

Yes, but this method takes a problem where you have to inspect
everyone's roll carefully, into a problem where you have to
inspect only the leader's roll carefully. And nobody will
complain if someone requests that the leader re-roll the seed
number, because it doesn't determine anything.

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John H. Kim
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