Distribution of RealDiceRandomSource.choice() not equal
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The disitribution of values picked from a sequence in diceware.RealDiceRandomSource.choice()
is not equal, if the sequence length is not a power of the number of dice_sides.
For instance for a sequemce [1, 2, 3]
and four-sided dice, the distribution will be:
(6/16, 5/16, 5/16), i.e. the first item has a higher probabilty to be picked than the other elements.
This is because we do a modulo, where instead we might should discard rolls.