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

Great suggestion. I went ahead and gave Ulysses a try, it’s on Project Gutenberg, though I couldn’t find Finnegan’s Wake. Results from the 28399 unique words in Ulysses:

method              1     2     3     4     5     6
---------------  ----  ----  ----  ----  ----  ----
mod(N,6) method  4757  4777  4716  4760  4705  4684
mod(N,9) method  3131  3223  3121  3193  3124  3105

Almost a perfect distribution, the chi-squared values are 1.4 and 3.5 respectively, which is extremelly low.

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