How to roll an imaginary 6-sided die in your head

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Sure enough, that did it. Removing all repeated words gives me the following for Crime and Punishment:

method              1     2     3     4     5     6
---------------  ----  ----  ----  ----  ----  ----
mod(N,6) method  1584  1600  1551  1610  1493  1526
mod(N,9) method  1052  1057  1069  1084  1049  1035
rand function    1574  1517  1560  1546  1608  1559

Normalized sum of squared error (SSE) for mod(N,6) method = 6.66339
Normalized sum of squared error (SSE) for mod(N,9) method = 1.36464
Normalized sum of squared error (SSE) for rand function = 2.91115

Both the %6 and %9 are on par with the rand() function, just like your results.

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