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Topic	Cool, an Adam Ruins Everything about guns
Chewster 11/28/18 7:09:41 PM #45:	MICHALECOLE posted... He said that since the machines became computerized, they added more winning spots, and some are programmed to hit more than others. This is sort of true, but it sounds like it's backwards. It's the bad spots that are supposed to be programmed to appear more. They do this by having weights on the random number generator, so like the jackpot symbol might have a weight of one or two but the crappy ones in between have a much higher weight. It visually looks like the good symbols are frequent, but they're not. Edit: Oh wait, I think this is what you meant by "the spots in between each winning item are programmed to hit more", but it's confusing. Depends on whether you're talking vertically or horizontally. <cite>Chewster posted [p:913208442] in Cool, an A... [t:77246557]...</cite> <quote><cite>MICHALECOLE posted...</cite> <quote>He said that since the machines became computerized, they added more winning spots, and some are programmed to hit more than others.</quote> This is sort of true, but it sounds like it's backwards. It's the bad spots that are supposed to be programmed to appear more. They do this by having weights on the random number generator, so like the jackpot symbol might have a weight of one or two but the crappy ones in between have a much higher weight. It visually looks like the good symbols are frequent, but they're not. Edit: Oh wait, I think this is what you meant by "the spots in between each winning item are programmed to hit more", but it's confusing. Depends on whether you're talking vertically or horizontally.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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