Talk:Seven-sided dice from five-sided dice

It's more common for computer random number generators to generate a random number from 0 to n-1, than from 1 to n. So I propose changing the definitions of dice5() and dice7() to generate integers from 0..4 and 0..6, respectively. It will make the math a little simpler. --96.238.211.175 08:26, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Hi, please don't change this as it is more common for dice to count from 1. It is better to make the program adapt to the problem in this case. --Paddy3118 08:56, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

As noted in the Tcl explanatory text, this is explicitly about making a primitive D5 and creating a D7 from it. (That's also why I use the terms D5 and D7; what programmer hasn't played at least some D&D? :-)) In any case, no conventional die (the correct singular form of “dice”) numbers from 0. —Donal Fellows 10:04, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

I'm probably the exception that proves the rule about D&D. (My great time waster was PacMan)! --Paddy3118 11:10, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

J seems ugly

I'd really like someone knowledgeable to look and make J solution more elegant. This straightforward solution doesn't look very good.