or you could roll a d10 for each digit. then you would have 5x fewer rolls and wouldn’t have to convert the binary expansion of an arbitrarily precise number back to decimal.
Or use an online RNG or an app to discover a number of your desired precision in one step.
If you really like the gaming feel, you could have an arbitrary number of slots for decisions and roll a die for each slot, eliminating slots that roll under a certain value. You could even have a table of modifiers for each class of option: chores get +1, self-care tasks like making a meal get +3, sending that angry email gets −1, &c.
In any case, all that is far more work than just assuming that six options of approximately equal weight is usually going to work out just fine. I don’t think we really need arbitrary precision here; we just want a process that gets an unambiguous answer and keeps the brain-goblins from having to fight it out. ;) Adding more parameters strikes me as a good way to get that fight going again but at an additional step removed from the actual decision.
That said: if navigating a binary tree with a coin or whatever is more fun for you, you should definitely do that instead. The system that we want to use is the best system!
or you could roll a d10 for each digit. then you would have 5x fewer rolls and wouldn’t have to convert the binary expansion of an arbitrarily precise number back to decimal.
Or use an online RNG or an app to discover a number of your desired precision in one step.
If you really like the gaming feel, you could have an arbitrary number of slots for decisions and roll a die for each slot, eliminating slots that roll under a certain value. You could even have a table of modifiers for each class of option: chores get +1, self-care tasks like making a meal get +3, sending that angry email gets −1, &c.
In any case, all that is far more work than just assuming that six options of approximately equal weight is usually going to work out just fine. I don’t think we really need arbitrary precision here; we just want a process that gets an unambiguous answer and keeps the brain-goblins from having to fight it out. ;) Adding more parameters strikes me as a good way to get that fight going again but at an additional step removed from the actual decision.
That said: if navigating a binary tree with a coin or whatever is more fun for you, you should definitely do that instead. The system that we want to use is the best system!