The unexpected logic behind rolling multiple dice and picking the highest.

Check out Jane Street’s icosahedron puzzle: 2022 International Mathematical Olympiad! If you want those d60 and d120 we sell them on Maths Gear or you can go direct to The Dice Lab. Here is my terrible python code. Thanks to Gilad Levy for sending in the question. This is the best collection of maths about the problem we found at the time: But much of that looks at getting a certain value OR GREATER whereas I focused on specific values and the average value. I’ve also noticed that Chalkdust just beat me with a similar article. Nice to see a different way (induction) to derive the same probability of getting specific value equ
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