From 2833536928f1a92ec824fef0dc7b00eed38dd37b62d2943db7b332f39d66f1bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicholas Johnson Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Subject: Add missing possessive to 'for NOUN sake' idiom --- content/entry/remote-fair-coin-flipping-with-friends.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'content/entry/remote-fair-coin-flipping-with-friends.md') diff --git a/content/entry/remote-fair-coin-flipping-with-friends.md b/content/entry/remote-fair-coin-flipping-with-friends.md index cfce132..c525278 100644 --- a/content/entry/remote-fair-coin-flipping-with-friends.md +++ b/content/entry/remote-fair-coin-flipping-with-friends.md @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ It is possible to perform a remote fair coin flip with 3 or more participants, b 10. Convert the value from step 9 back to heads or tails as defined in step 1. ## Flipping Multiple Coins with 3+ Friends -This is the most difficult coin flip: multiple coins with more than 2 participants. I think you get the gist of it by now and I don't really need to type all this out, but I will for completeness sake. Not much will be changed from the above steps though. +This is the most difficult coin flip: multiple coins with more than 2 participants. I think you get the gist of it by now and I don't really need to type all this out, but I will for completeness' sake. Not much will be changed from the above steps though. 1. Flip N physical coins. Heads represents 0. Tails represents 1. Concatenate the coin flip results. 2. Append to the result of step 1 a space followed by a [nonce](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_nonce) that your friends cannot easily guess. Never reuse the nonce. For the sequence heads tails heads tails heads, it will look like this: 01010 yabynkgpbfnagntyzvgvgmwaa -- cgit v1.2.3