But is the &quot;perceptive reader&quot; actually correct?<p>There are many pictures online of d100 dice clearly showing a &#x27;100&#x27;: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Role-Playing-Dice-Spherical-ZOCCHIHEDRON&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B0026NDDEE" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Role-Playing-Dice-Spherical-ZOCCHIHEDR...</a><p>And while the argument for rand() starting at 0 is true for Perl, even this is language dependent.  More frequently, rand() doesn&#x27;t even take an argument:
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