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arxiv: 1506.00086 · v1 · pith:BGMFOZBCnew · submitted 2015-05-30 · 🧮 math.CO · cs.DM

Simulating a die roll by flipping two coins

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keywords coinfairrollbiasedcoinscomingflipflipping
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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.

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