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Author here. I know 0-10 is one extra even number. I also just did this for fun so don't take the statistical significance aspect of it very seriously. You also need to run this multiple times with multiple temperature and top_p values to do this more rigorously.

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Cool experiment! My intuition suggests you would get a better result if you let the LLM generate tokens for a while before giving you an answer. Could be another experiment idea to see what kind of instructions lead to better randomness. (And to extend this, whether these instructions help humans better generate random numbers too.)

In the summary at the top it says you used 0-10 but then for the prompt it says 1-10. I had assumed the summary was incorrect but I guess it's the prompt that's wrong?

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