Re: spoon-discuss: dice server

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoth Joel Uckelman:
> In case anyone needs one, there's a rudimentary dice roller now available 
> at http://www.nomic.net/~test/cgi-bin/rand.pl, in case you need some random 
> numbers. The input format should be familiar to anyone who's played a lot 
> of wargames or RPGs. Dice are specified as qdn, where q is the quantity and 
> n is the number of faces; e.g., 7d6 would be seven six-siders. I haven't 
> analysed the data yet to test its randomness, but it uses /dev/urandom, and 
> that seems to be a good source based on samples from it I've tested.
> 
> In the distant future, I'll probably spruce up the interface, add some 
> error-checking (it doesn't complain about non-integer or negative numbers 
> of faces or rolls), allow it to respond to mailed requests for numbers, and 
> move it to dice.nomic.net on one of my DECstations (to give it something to 
> do).
> 
> -- 
> J.

Opps. Scratch that. The URL is http://www.nomic.net/~test/cgi-bin/dice.pl.

-- 
J.