Totals on the dice range from 2 to 12, but not every total is equally likely. Most of us have played craps in our lives, though not necessarily for money: in short, one bets for/against the likelihood that the sum of a pair of six-sided dice will take on certain values. They were discovered by one Colonel George Sicherman, and reported on by the incomparable Martin Gardner in 1978. Both of these have some rather surprising and interesting aspects, and are new to me, anyway, so I thought I’d do a post! In the meantime, I happened across (well, ‘Stumbled Upon’) a few sets of very interesting dice for sale: Sicherman Dice and non-transitive dic e. I’ll hopefully get back to some normal blogging next week. I’m still in the midst of a massive move into a new house, but everything has at least been moved from point A to point B now the unpacking, organizing and fixing of things begins.
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