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AlotOfReading ◴[] No.46186005[source]
Another procedure based on a similar problem I worked on with a friend: you both pick positive integers a and b, then add them together to create c. Either sqrt(c) or sqrt(c+1) is irrational and the fractional digits provide your random numbers. If you need a new sequence, you take some digits from the current expansion and sqrt() them again.

Might not be unbiased, but good luck proving it.

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1. gowld ◴[] No.46195627[source]
You need to go mod 10^(-n) to avoid the bias in the first digits.

I'd prefer that one person choose a non-square integer, and the other choose (very large) n.