From Monopoly to Backgammon to Yahtzee, our first experiences with board games almost always feature sets of six-sided dice. They’re a great way to create some randomness and chaos in a game, but ...
Let's say I roll two dice, a d8 and a d12… How do I calculate the probability that the d12 will a) win, b) be equal, c) lose? There is probably a name for this equation, but my google-fu is lacking.
Candidates are often asked to answer obscure or tricky math and probability questions during job interviews at tech companies like Google and Amazon. This dice problem, as demonstrated on YouTube by ...
"What makes dice fair?" is a more loaded question than you might think. At its simplest, a fair die means that each of the faces has the same probability of landing facing up. A standard six-sided die ...
It sounds like a homework problem out of a high school math book: What is the probability of rolling a pair of dice 154 times continuously at a craps table, without throwing a seven? The answer is ...