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Re:Mathematicians Roll Dice and Get Rock-Paper-Scissors by Karrot_Kream on Saturday January 21, 2023 @03:57AM (#34464974)
You're sampling your dice with replacement. Your program makes no sense if both die1 and die2 are the same (which occurs 1/3 of the time.)
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Re:Mathematicians Roll Dice and Get Rock-Paper-Scissors by thaumasiotes on Saturday January 21, 2023 @05:08AM (#34465308)
Why not? What's nonsensical about that?
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Re:Mathematicians Roll Dice and Get Rock-Paper-Scissors by nxpnsv on Saturday January 21, 2023 @07:08AM (#34465879)
Because the intransitivity doesn't hold for dice A vs dice A... it only holds when comparing different dice
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Re:Mathematicians Roll Dice and Get Rock-Paper-Scissors by kadoban on Saturday January 21, 2023 @09:41AM (#34466719)
If nothing else: it doesn't model the problem correctly. There's only one of each type of die, the second person can't pick a non-existant copy.
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