Quote Originally Posted by BurningDownTheHouse View Post
Alright, I admit that I am not a mathematician and definitely not a statistician.
But...
I was just beating on the dummy till its death, 213 hits, and the results are:
No clusters of 13,16,8
2 clusters of 3 2's
1 cluster of 3 5's
2 clusters of 3 13's
1 cluster of 3 20's
and...
1 cluster of 4 3's

OK, so no large clusters of 1's this time (there were 2 in a row, but I didn't record those)...

Now tell me, is this just stupid old me, or does look just a tad weird?
My point was only that 3 numbers are just that, 3 numbers. It's only a coincidence that we think 1 has a special meaning, but it has not. 3 consecutive 1s have the exact same chance as any 3 (same or different) numbers. It doesn't matter.

And random is random. You can roll 1000000000 1s in a row, that does not tell anything about the randomness of the random generator.

My personal best was 4 20s in a row while vorpaling stuff, it looked great (knowing that those are actually 4 20s in 8 rolls)