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Inventing a Two-Person Dice Roll Simulation Method Using Polar Coordinates

By

Fraterkes

5mo ago· 6 min readen

Summary

Two friends in Xi'an with dead phone batteries invent a creative method to simulate dice rolls using only their bodies and polar coordinates. They develop a two-person technique to generate random numbers for simplified D&D-like campaigns, then create a game that can be played with their invented 'fake dice' system.

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But by then we were presented with no other tools except our mortal bodies (because both of our phone's batteries had run out), and mortal bodies are quite bad at generating random numbers.
Exploiting the polar coordinate, we thought up a neat little trick to generate random numbers, and simplified it so that it can simulate a randomly generated die roll.
After all, who doesn't love random numbers?
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I’ve traveled to Xi’an to play with my friend, Zambon21. There are some boring time which must be passed, and so we tried to pass them using brain-procedurally generated simplified D&D-like campaigns. As all D&D campaigns requires dice, ours is no excepti

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