re: #106 gmsc
Actually, dice and coins are better random number generators than computers. Dice and coins are True Random Number Generators (TRNGs), as opposed to most computers, which use Pseudo-Random Number Generators (PRNGs). Although there are specially-built computers that can be used as TRNGs.
A more detailed discussion of the difference can be found at Random.org.
Thanks - duly hearted, and updinged!
So FDR wasn’t that weird when he decided the daily exchange rate of the $/gold by flipping a coin …