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Last night Alexandre Muñiz gave a Celebration of Mind talk titled “How to Roll Two Dice.” If you want to roll 2d6, you can do it either the boring way (by rolling two ordinary d6s) or the interesting way — by rolling two distinct d6s, one labeled 1-2-2-3-3-4 and the other labeled 1-3-4-5-6-8. These Sicherman dice (invented by George Sicherman and first reported by Martin Gardner in 1978) produce the same distribution of 36 possible results as the ordinary 2d6:
Back to Basics at CppCon 2021
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CppCon 2021 starts in just a few days! As in 2019 and 2020, CppCon 2021 will have a “Back to Basics” track. The Back to Basics track’s mission (in phrasing newly refined for 2021) is: Top trainers clearly explain all the essential topics of modern C++.