Why Christmas Box RNG is badly coded: Statistics say something is funky

RStinkyStonky, on 14 January 2019 - 05:39 PM, said:  how would you calculate the value of Pi ?".  


N00BT00B, on 14 January 2019 - 06:45 PM, said:     I think you misunderstand, and being the clever people that you claim to be, that's surprising. I think you are more interested in telling everyone how big your e-peen is.   I could ask WG to toss a coin for me in the privacy of their office and report the results but I wouldn't trust their answer. Especially if I was paying for each coin toss and wanted to reach a set number of heads or tails.   Random or 'pseudo-random' is one thing, fiddling the results deliberately in order to make money is another. It's easy to fiddle 'random' when it's computer generated, who is the arbitrator? where is the accountability?   Let WG declare the drop rates for each ornament and get the numbers independently verified. what's the chances of that happening? (insert fancy maths *0)  


StinkyStonky, on 15 January 2019 - 10:23 AM, said: Good enough to get to the next question   You've demonstrated that you understand the problem and how it can be solved.   Good interview questions are hard to come up with.  Microsoft and Google used to use a lot of those silly brain teaser questions (they don't any more).  Not only can they be learned but they don't select "good" people. One of theirs that I adapted was this ... You have 8 identical balls.  One weighs more than the other 7.  Using only a see-saw weigh scale, how do you identify the heavy ball ?  In the smallest number of weightings.  The trouble is some people know the model answer and they just trot it out.  They question I used to ask was ... How many different ways can you come up with to do this ?  It's amazing the number of people who can only come up with 2 or 3 ... especially if they know the model answer.  For those that knew the model answer I throw in "What if there were 28 balls ? or 1234 balls ?  It's very rare to find anyone is able to answer that !  It's also interesting the number who used to become hostile at my questions.  This is why I like the question.  Not knowing something is fine.  It's how you cope with that, that is important.   Using your knowledge, experience, education, expertise is not "cheating"