{"id":7485,"date":"2020-08-26T23:26:51","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T21:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=7485"},"modified":"2020-08-26T23:26:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T21:26:51","slug":"troll-dice-roller-and-probability-calculator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2020\/08\/26\/troll-dice-roller-and-probability-calculator\/","title":{"rendered":"Troll dice roller and probability calculator"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Recently I’ve been looking for an alternative to AnyDice<\/a>, probably\u00a0the most known and widely used Dice Probability Calculator. It’s really good but it has a huge con. It’s proprietary, the source code is not available.<\/p>\n

Enters Troll, dice roller and probability calculator<\/a><\/em> which has a somehow raw and crude user interface but its sources are available to download.<\/p>\n

Thanks Torben Mogensen for creating Troll (currently on http:\/\/www.diku.dk\/\u223ctorbenm\/Troll<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I’ve hastily made a mirror of it. It is an academic project: there are no copyright tenses, there is no license, the documentation is made in LaTEX and there is an article which has been published as a paper at the ACM Sigplan Symposium on Applied Computing, 2009.<\/p>\n

Well, that’s good enough for me. It also makes me rediscover ML languages as it is written in Moscow ML<\/a> which looks like quite a stable language. Sadly it’s not in repositories of the major distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora). It’s available “only” as ZIP<\/strong><\/a>, TAR Ball<\/strong><\/a>, On GitHub<\/strong><\/a>, as PKG File<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0DEB<\/strong><\/a> and\u00a0Win<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently I’ve been looking for an alternative to AnyDice, probably\u00a0the most known and widely used Dice Probability Calculator. It’s really good but it has a huge con. It’s proprietary, the source code is not available. Enters Troll, dice roller and probability calculator which has a somehow raw and crude user interface but its sources are…<\/p>\n

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