humpolec comments on Open Thread September, Part 3 - Less Wrong

2 Post author: LucasSloan 28 September 2010 05:21AM

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Comment author: humpolec 29 September 2010 06:59:36PM 0 points [-]

"In the 5617525 times this simulation has run, players have won $664073 And by won I mean they have won back $664073 of the $5617525 they spent (11%)."

Either it's buggy or there is some tampering with data going on.

Also, several Redditors claim to have won - maybe the simulator is just poorly programmed.

Comment author: jimrandomh 29 September 2010 11:46:42PM 3 points [-]

It's an integer overflow - it wraps around at either 2^31, 2^32/100, or 2^32. I wasn't patient enough to refresh the page enough times to figure out which.