Provide Random Numbers, Coni Flips, Dice Rolls

iamjameswalters

Google has a few nice options for making quick decisions/getting random numbers:

You can ask it to flip a coin:

You can ask it to roll a die:

(including polyhedral dice):

Or you can just ask it to get a random number:

Not that it has to look animated like Google's widgets do, but I'd at least love this kind of functionality available.

twizzlebizzle

Doesn't help with the GUI aspect but i've started asking fast gpt this if needed.

i.e "!fgpt random number between 1 and 10"

You could even set it up as a quickbang too I guess.

iamjameswalters

That does sort of work. Although the results get cached, so you can't continue asking/refreshing the roll. And for the sticklers who care about true randomness, I'd wonder whether FastGPT/Quick Answer actually provides that vs. just completing the query as language models. Perhaps they're using a tool to handle that? 🤔

brner69420

It'd be cool if the computer/calculator could do D&D style dice rolls, e.g. 2d6. Or with modifiers: 5d4 + 3

There's a library 'Fend' that does this, along with the maths and all the other stuff the calculator does at the moment, and can run on the web: https://github.com/printfn/fend